A Tour of The Language of Surface: Paintings by Debbie Ma

The Bridgehampton Museum invites the public to a special artist-led tour of The Language of Surface: Paintings by Debbie Ma, the museum’s current exhibition exploring Ma’s distinctive vocabulary of abstracted, letter-like forms and richly textured surfaces.

Before the tour, Museum board member Mary Dinaburg will conduct a short Q&A with Ma on her work and life as an artist. Then, during the tour, Ma will guide visitors through her works and offer insight into the development of her visual language, which blends geometric structures, textile-like patterns, and suggestive typographic shapes. Known for her careful use of restrained or monochrome color palettes, Ma’s paintings reward close attention, revealing subtle shifts in surface and depth that create a dynamic spatial experience.

Art critic Barbara A. MacAdam has described Ma as a “builder-sculptor/architect,” noting the artist’s process of constructing and deconstructing shapes to form an elegant, personal alphabet. This tour provides an opportunity to hear directly from Ma about the material, conceptual, and intuitive decisions that shape her practice.