Two Things Can Be True - Opening Reception
Eaton DC
<p><strong style="color: rgb(57, 54, 79); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Join us Friday, April 29 as we present Two Things Can Be True, a solo show by Lindsay Adams.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Mark your calendars for the Opening Reception @ 7 pm on 4/29</p><p><br></p><p>Two Things Can Be True </p><p><br></p><p>In 1926 Langston Hughes penned “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” Among the many observations and considerations for the cultural canon, he declares a necessity for duality. “We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs…We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.” The valleys of the mountain that Hughes elicits may be filled with pastures of flowers, beds of free will, and boundless beauty. This landscape and its abstractions are reflected in Two Things Can Be True, a solo exhibition by Lindsay Adams.</p><p><br></p><p>“Two things can be true” is an idiom denoting the complexity of existence. Embracing our humanity is resistance to fracture, compartmentalize and restrain our whole, complex selves. Such resistance may not be thundering but reserved with self-satisfaction. Adams’ figures and landscapes express individual self-importance through posture, gaze, tones, gradients, and shapes. The women depicted gaze forward yet convey an interest within, an emotionality uninformed by the external.</p><p><br></p><p>Lindsay Adams’ presentation of florae, alone or near the figures she depicts, expresses hybridity regarding care, autonomy, and beauty. Adams is interested in the environments that cultivate beauty and the attention required to understand and nurture the individual and thus the collective. Adams’ work is informed by personal histories and art historical references and influences. Through her skilled and textural paintings and reflective poetry, this newer body of work presents seen and unseen facets of our lives.</p>