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Website: marleaadelman.cargo.site
Marle Adelman is a mixed media painter whose practice draws from both rigorous academic training and intuitive exploration. Born in Chicago and currently based in Brooklyn, Adelman honed her visual language through the Chicago Academy for the Arts and earned her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. With eight years of dedicated studio practice, her work plays at the intersection of shape, color, and symbolic abstraction.
Her most recent exhibition, Particle Loop, debuted at Pratt’s Steuben Gallery and marked a pivotal moment in her evolving visual language. By assigning meaning to geometric forms and color systems, Adelman constructs symbolic topographies—vivid landscapes that seem to hover between the scientific and the surreal. Her art is a space of discovery, where research, imagination, and mark-making converge into new visual worlds.
Featured Artwork
Title: Subatomic 18
Medium: Colored pencil, wax pastel, oil pastel, and gouache on panel
Dimensions: 18″ x 24″
Year: 2025
Price: $800
Subatomic 18 is part of an ongoing series inspired by the invisible architecture of matter. Adelman reflects on the microscopic ecosystems of lagoons—peaceful yet complex environments teeming with unseen life. Her work imagines what it would mean to dissolve into these ecosystems, not as an observer, but as one of the particles forming their intricate whole.
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Exhibition Information
May 2025: Echoes of the Earth – Environmental Art
Curated by: Mekhi Deleon
Theme: Exploring the intersection of art and environmentalism, advocating for the planet through eco-art and other mediums.
Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 8, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1 | 6 PM – 8 PM
Artist Quote
“The circle is a perfect shape. A circle can be anything. A sun, a doorknob, a heart, an atom, a fish, a head, a pool, a spaceship, a pet, a ragdoll, and/or a reflection on the water.”
(for accessibility: full transcript below)
Subatomic 18 invites you into a world just beneath perception—a landscape where particles pulse and patterns emerge.
Marle Adelman fuses rigorous structure with intuitive mark-making, layering color and form until the scientific meets the surreal.
This isn’t a static world. It’s a living one—vivid, electric, quietly humming beneath the surface.
Each orbit of color, each textural shift, suggests a microcosm teeming with unseen ecosystems, intricate yet organic.
Through this lens, Adelman asks us to reconsider scale: to recognize the complexity of even the smallest spaces, and perhaps, to glimpse ourselves within them.