Tomma Abts: Mainly Drawings

Tomma Abts creates her paintings and drawings using a rigorous process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of the final result, Abts makes complex abstract compositions that ultimately take as their subject the process of their own creation. Her exhibition at the AAM is the first to survey the artist’s extensive drawing practice. It features forty-one works from 1996 to the present—many never before exhibited—and includes new works created specifically for the exhibition.