David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Tomma Abts, highlighting the artist’s continued commitment to exploring process and form. Known for her meticulous and intuitive approach, Abts has been creating intimately scaled canvases since 1998 that unfold through careful layering and gradual development. This latest body of work pushes her practice into new territory, embracing a more playful engagement with structure, format, and the physical possibilities of paint. Each piece builds upon the foundations of her established method while introducing fresh variations and experimental elements.

These new compositions reflect a heightened sense of experimentation. Through complex arrangements of geometric forms, textures, and color relationships, Abts challenges visual expectations and resists easy interpretation. The works evolve over time, each one following its own internal logic as it takes shape on the canvas. Her paintings are not preconceived; rather, they emerge through a slow and deliberate process in which visual tension and resolution are discovered rather than planned. In this way, each painting becomes a self-contained world—both methodical and unpredictable.

This exhibition marks Abts’s fourth solo presentation with David Zwirner and her first in New York since 2019. The show offers a rare opportunity to experience the latest developments in her ongoing practice and reaffirms her status as one of the most distinctive and influential painters working today. Despite their small scale, Abts’s paintings possess a striking intensity and depth that invite close observation and sustained engagement, offering viewers a quiet yet profound encounter with the possibilities of abstraction.