Radcliffe Institute fellow returns to Brooklyn for new solo show
A visit to Elise Adibi’s makeshift art gallery/studio apartment on Monroe Place is a reminder of the flavor and breadth of characters who call Brooklyn Heights home. Adibi is a longtime New York resident — she moved to Midtown in 1994 after graduating from architecture school at the University of Pennsylvania (she also holds degrees in philosophy from Swarthmore College and painting from Columbia University).
A residential stint in a loft above a beer distributor in Bushwick inspired a move to Los Angeles in 2012, from which Adibi drew inspiration for her latest show at the Louis B. James gallery on the Lower East Side, titled “Substance.” The aptly titled installation in the basement of the Orchard Street gallery incorporates essential plant oils and its works are connected through substance and smell.