Weary Blues
By Lindsay Adams
About
The artwork
In Weary Blues, Chicago artist Lindsay Adams draws inspiration from Langston Hughes’s famous poem of the same name. Originally created as an oil painting and adapted into fabric panels, the work features floating flowers against a moody blue field. Adams uses color and abstraction to explore themes of resilience, rest, and the enduring power of Black creative expression.
Location: Museum | Cafe
The artist
Lindsay Adams is a Chicago-based artist whose work explores identity, memory, and representation through layered compositions of color and texture. Drawing on personal and collective histories, her paintings move between abstraction and figuration, often combining multiple visual moments within a single surface. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Dining at the Center
See Lindsay Adams’s artwork at the Cafe and experience a variety of culinary delights.
Chicago Public Library, Obama Presidential Center Branch
Explore the poetry of Langston Hughes and other literary icons at the Obama Presidential Center Library. The new branch of the Chicago Public Library celebrates creativity and fosters the imagination for our next generation of leaders.
