Opening reception: February 3, 2024 6–9pm
Presented by Keystone Art Space Gallery
338 S Avenue 16, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Show duration: February 1–12, 2024
Marleigh Culver
studio@marleighculver.com
Marleigh Culver’s first Los Angeles solo show presents a body of painting works of rich color held through soft forms and paint bleeds. Creating through a time of familial loss and a new plane of existence realized in conjunction with new beginnings, these paintings hold a sense of release and invitation through abstract movement and outlines. Quiet, stormy feelings of grief represented through favorite colors of rust and navy-black partnered with brighter, hopeful hues like a bright orange-red, that represent an undeniable need to follow a carved life path, show the importance and care for color that Culver loves to explore and the response to gut feelings through meaningful color.
BIO
Born on the Virginian coast and now residing in the Arizona desert, Marleigh Culver (b. 1990) is a gestural and abstract painter on Tappan Collective’s roster since 2016. Culver’s work is inspired by Color Field Painting and Post-Painterly Abstraction and is characterized by an abstract and romantic aesthetic. The use of color throughout her work is both considered and playful, reflecting the artist’s own effervescent personality. Marleigh Culver’s work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Domino, Vogue, Sight Unseen, T Magazine, and more. Her site specific external and interior murals can be seen at Google in Mountain View, Grand Central Terminal in NYC, and across the both coasts.