This exhibition, PAST IS PRESENT, reflects how my current work continues to be shaped by earlier explorations. Revisiting these pieces has been both inspiring and, at times, conflicting, revealing how many internal and external struggles remain unchanged.

The exhibition brings together two distinct bodies of work: The Y-Con Series (1983–1989), which defined my identity as an abstract artist as I discovered my own mark-making, iconography, and color palette; and Peering Through (2007–2013), a series of daily visual observations made during that period.

These works on paper serve as records of experience and emotion, revealing the enduring process of self-exploration and the hidden forms and connective energies that emerge from it. Through geometric planes and layered, flattened surfaces, my compositions evoke extraterrestrial spaces and biomorphic forms while offering a visual language through which to examine the life experiences that have shaped me.

Revisiting these works invites me to consider what has been discovered, how ideas have evolved, what may have been lost over time, and what remains to be found.

–Mary Admasian