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Night Gallery is thrilled to present Mixed Feelings Color Pains, an exhibition of new oil paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Acacia Marable. This marks the artist’s first solo show with the gallery.
The exhibition takes its title from two bodies of work Marable has developed since 2022. Both series are painted onto used dartboards, a continuation of his preference for working with functional objects. Mixed Feelings is the more sculptural series, incorporating wire forms and other materials onto the painting. These ornamentations point towards the racialized experience at the center of the series, which draws its name from Marable’s own position as a mixed-race person. Color Pains operates differently—quieter, more abstract, and minimal—concerned with color as both perception and feeling. Together, the two series ask to be read against each other, their surface differences gradually revealing a shared preoccupation.
Color, for Marable, is never pure. For those of us who can perceive…
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Press Release
Night Gallery is thrilled to present Mixed Feelings Color Pains, an exhibition of new oil paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Acacia Marable. This marks the artist’s first solo show with the gallery.
The exhibition takes its title from two bodies of work Marable has developed since 2022. Both series are painted onto used dartboards, a continuation of his preference for working with functional objects. Mixed Feelings is the more sculptural series, incorporating wire forms and other materials onto the painting. These ornamentations point towards the racialized experience at the center of the series, which draws its name from Marable’s own position as a mixed-race person. Color Pains operates differently—quieter, more abstract, and minimal—concerned with color as both perception and feeling. Together, the two series ask to be read against each other, their surface differences gradually revealing a shared preoccupation.
Color, for Marable, is never pure. For those of us who can perceive…









































































































































































