“What does it mean to exist beyond containment?” artist Lindsay Adams wondered aloud while standing in her temporary studio at Silver Art Projects on the 28th floor of 4 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. “I’ve tried to let my work do that.”It was the last day of her yearlong New York residency, and Adams was surrounded by her books, paints, papers, and more than a dozen paintings in various states of completion. Soon, Adams and her husband would pack everything up before heading home to Chi...

“What does it mean to exist beyond containment?” artist Lindsay Adams wondered aloud while standing in her temporary studio at Silver Art Projects on the 28th floor of 4 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. “I’ve tried to let my work do that.”It was the last day of her yearlong New York residency, and Adams was surrounded by her books, paints, papers, and more than a dozen paintings in various states of completion. Soon, Adams and her husband would pack everything up before heading home to Chi...