Adaline Kent

Overview

Adaline Kent (b. 1900) lived and worked in the Bay Area until her passing in 1957. Over the course of her lifetime, she became known as a pioneer of the mid-century modernist aesthetic, creating abstract sculptures inspired by her time spent in the mountains of the High Sierras, and by the way bodies, including her own, moved through space. Interested in exploring the experience of time in her practice, Kent’s work captures elegant, elemental movements through biomorphic shapes and forms. Evoking a diverse array of imagery ranging from infinity symbols to mountains, streams, and ski slopes, the artist’s dedication to creating visual movement and balance through static form transcends time, remaining as deeply resonant today as it was during her lifetime.

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