Adnan creates her paintings decisively and intuitively. Seated at her desk with her small canvases laid flat, she applies pigments directly from the tube, using a palette knife to render compositions of radiant immediacy. Continue reading Etel Adnan
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1925, visual artist, poet, and essayist Etel Adnan writes what must be communicated through language, and paints what cannot. While her earliest paintings favored pure abstraction, she is perhaps best known for her landscape works inspired by her long obsession with Mount Tamalpais. Continue reading Etel Adnan
