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Ribbons of Breath. Adams's Sweetness (1990) "offers a microcosm of the many divergent possibilities one might encounter traversing the cosmos of the mind's eye", and one of her newer paintings Be/Hold (2004) "has the power to draw the eye toward the minutiae of its variegated surfaces". Overall, Pat Adams's work has been well-received, and she's even been called "one of the most important abstract painters working today".
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paintings included in this exhibition were Into the Garden (2003), Situation (2002), Following From (2002), and What
Follows (2003). What Follows, in particular, has been described as "a soft, dusty mist vibrat through the space...almost impossibly, shift on occasion into liquid, giving buoyancy to the dot-filled oval and the circles in its field".
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In 1960, Dore Ashton asserted that Pat Adams's works detail her "visual experiences of nature and her spiritual insights about the cosmos". Ashton places Adams in the same category as artists like Odilon Redon and Mark Tobey, in that they each "seek to find what is 'within' the inmost secrets of the
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A 50th anniversary exhibition of her first show at
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Zabriskie was described in the New York Times as "quiet, but intense," while simultaneously abstract and "filled with lyrical allusions". Among the exhibited works was, Ribbons of Breath (1954), which used brightly colored, intertwining shapes in gouache and watercolor.
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