Artist Statement

Through my paintings, I explore what it means to be enraptured by existence, highlighting our desire to see, feel, and become. I make process-based figurative paintings that play with elements of intuitive expression. I work with acrylic and inks on canvas, integrating thick impasto, glazing, and dry-brush to create my multi-layered paintings. My work is characterized by vibrant, bold applications of color, and playful, gestural mark-making. At once fluid and structural, the physicality of paint continues to serve as a basis for my research. I drag my dry brush across the peaks and crevices of my layered paint, happily surprised by the nuances of time recorded. Like an archeologist uncovering hidden layers, I reveal the painting's history through deliberate excavation, discovering nuances that speak to the passage of time and artistic decision-making.

My chromatic paintings are grounded in the abstract realm. Some of my works feature glimpses of figurative elements in motion, while others nod to the historical tradition of landscape painting. I harmonize colors to create the illusion of light and possibility. The interplay between chance and intention, materiality and surface, forms the cornerstone of my practice. This dialogue between the analytical and emotional aspects of creation open space for surprising discoveries. Within the structure of the conscious and the unconscious, I make work that celebrates freedom and the expansion of the senses, holding the process and the journey at the epicenter of my creations.  

Biography

Adi Oren (b. 1989, New York, NY) is a New York based painter whose practice celebrates freedom and the expansion of the senses, holding the process and the journey at the epicenter of her creations. Oren received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. Her work has been published in national publications such as Forbes and Artsy. Oren has participated in exhibitions along the East Coast at Kaliner Gallery, New York, NY; Chashama, New York, NY; Contessa Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; and Gallerie 271, Monterey, MA, among others.

Oren was the Co-Chair of the Ellenville Arts Collective, where she extended her passion of the arts and understands the importance of bringing art to the community at large. During the summer of 2021 she painted a large-scale outdoor mural in the center of the Hudson Valley town, where her high diving figures have become an emblem of renewal and freedom. She maintains a studio practice in New York City and Ellenville, NY, where she lives with her husband and two children.

CV

Born 1989, New York, NY 

Lives and works in New York, NY and Ellenville, NY 

adioren09@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2011 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2025 Unbound, Chashama, New York, NY

2024 Matter and Desire, Gallerie 271, Monterey, MA 

2023 Light As Air, Gallerie 271, Monterey, MA

2022 DREAMERS, Gallery 23 NY, New York, NY

2022 Solo Presentation, ArtExpo NY, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Art Newport, Newport Island Harbor Resort, Newport, RI

2024 In Dreams, 484 Gallery, Montauk, NY

2024 Summer’s Yield, Campo Cuttica, Flanders, NY

2024 Bloom, Gambit Works, New York, NY

2024 Buy What You Love, Rema Mann Hort Foundation, New York, NY 

2024 Intimatism, Red 225, Nashville, TN

2023 FORMah at Concours d'Elegance, FORMah, Southampton, NY

2023 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, with Contessa Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL

2023 Emotional Landscapes, FORMah Gallery, New York, NY

2022 Biosis, HNH Gallery, Williamsburg, NY

2022 Upstate Art Weekend Open Studio, Ellenville, NY

2022 Art Market Hamptons, with Contessa Gallery, Water Mill, NY

2022 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, with Contessa Gallery, Southampton, NY

PRIZES & AWARDS

2025 GSA National Artist Registry, U.S. General Services Administration

2022 Best Booth Design, ArtExpo NY, New York, NY

SELECT COLLECTIONS

Chef Driven Hospitality, New York, NY

Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel, New York, NY

Public Mural in Downtown Ellenville, NY

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

Kershaw, Emma, “Gansevoort Hotel’s Poliform Penthouse Brings Italian Elegance To New York City”, Forbes Magazine, https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmakershaw/2024/12/02/gansevoort-hotels-poliform-penthouse-brings-italian-elegance-to-new-york-city/

Parker, Laura, “Inside The Poliform Penthouse At Gansevoort Hotel: Italian Elegance Meets New York Flair”, Forbes Magazine, https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauraannaparker/2024/07/02/inside-the-poliform-penthouse-at-gansevoort-hotel-italian-elegance-meets-new-york-flair/

Arts to Hearts Magazine: Women Inside and Outside, Issue 6, June 2024

Israel, Alexandra, “Coasting: Newest LES Gallerist Maryana Kaliner on her Female-Focused Program”, Cultbytes, https://cultbytes.com/coasting-newest-les-gallerist-maryana-kaliner-on-her-female-focused-program/

Lambert, Audra, “Emotional Landscapes Explored at FORMah”, Creatrix, https://creatrixmag.com/emotional-landscapes-explored-at-formah/

Benjamin, Claudie, “Somewhere in the Mediterranean”, Landmark West, https://www.landmarkwest.org/somewhere-in-the-mediterranean/

Anderson, Jane, “High Energy” Chronogram, https://www.chronogram.com/hv-towns/ellenville-reservoir-studio-creative-agency-14705895

Chronogram, “Upstate Art Weekend Returns This Summer”, https://www.chronogram.com/arts/upstate-art-weekend-returns-this-summer-15500830