865 n virgil ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029
Saturday, July 19 at 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Ends Aug 24, 2025
Seams is an exhibition of drawings by Adam Abada that threads together impressions, memories, and meaning through the quiet complexity of visual language. Like a poem stitched from everyday words, each drawing functions as a singular note—together forming a larger, layered narrative.
The works explore the idea of the seam: as a connection, a rupture, a fold, a scar. Seams divide and join, reveal and conceal. They appear as geological lines in the earth—rivers, ridges, fault lines—or as conceptual boundaries in thought, time, and feeling. In this exhibition, drawings are arranged like fragments in a scrapbook or zine, evoking a sense of personal archiving, where the accidental and the intentional coexist.
Abada’s practice navigates these intersections—between natural and constructed, individual and collective, emotional and material. Through this nonlinear assembly, Seams invites viewers to trace the visible and invisible threads that run between images, objects, and experiences. The result is a kind of visual field guide for our fragmented yet interconnected present—a map made not of destinations, but of the seams that shape the terrain.