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On a very quiet morning, on the same piece of toast
Noriko Kawana, Hikari Ono, Nao Kikuchi
Curated by Kenji Ide
May 17–June 14, 2025
On a very quiet morning, on the same piece of toast features new works by Japanese artists Noriko Kawana, Hikari Ono, and Nao Kikuchi. Curated by artist Kenji Ide, the exhibition brings together works that are concerned with intimate moments of human action and connection—their preludes, influences, and manifested consequences—especially in relation to the body, and more specifically, hands. Hikari Ono's intimate clay works suggest touch and interaction, incorporating reference to movement and materials from the natural world to explore themes of care, expression, and precision of intention, while Nao Kikuchi's small scale ceramic works wrap industrial abstractions in nostalgia and playful articulations of geometric forms. Noriko Kawana's delicate and meticulous sculptures combine simple forms such as lines, rectangles, and circles, into complex arrangements that reference pattern, systems, language, and human built tools of measurement and calculation. Broad themes of time and the body, agency and influence, and the subtle interplay of proximity and perception offer an investigation of human interrelationships to one another, the objects and materials of the world, and our own past, present, and future, that guide and shape us as we shape them in turn.
Antonia Kuo: Subcycle
May 17–June 14, 2025
In May, Adams and Ollman is pleased to present a solo exhibition with Antonia Kuo, the artist's first on the West Coast. For the exhibition, Kuo has created new two- and three-dimensional works that explore the potential of the photographic medium both to record and to create an image. Inherent in the works is an exploration of how to capture light, time and the artistic process in the studio. Working with light-sensitive paper and photochemistry, Kuo creates layers of imagery that are informed by objects in the world such as industrial materials and machine parts, trace gestures of her body and chance. The resulting work offers the viewer a glimpse into an interpretative field of entropic energies and phenomena.
Stefanie Victor
June 20–August 3, 2025
For her third solo exhibition with the gallery, Victor installs new sculptures, made from a range of materials including textiles, plaster and metal, that respond to the conditions of their making, the work and rhythms of the studio, and the friction between what is familiar and what is uncanny. Responding to the geometry of the room, her expansive sculptures function like spatial interventions and gesture toward movement in space and time.
Marina Grize: In-Between Touch
June 20–August 2, 2025
Marina Grize’s richly colored, atmospheric photographs—dye diffusion transfer prints made with expired film and displayed in delicate artist frames—feature images of women in and around water. This collection of images, captured from various stills from lesbian cinema, form a meticulous photographic collection springing from the artist's archivist impulse. From a database of hundreds of films, Grize focuses on reframing the female subject and moments of coded language and symbolic images. Women and water have been linked through associations to life and birth, liberation and oblivion. In this series of work where the screen becomes a lens and a mirror, a point of connection and a reminder of distance, Grize reclaims these otherworldly moments, offering a complexity and presence to representations of queerness often lacking in our culture.