Adina (Danielle Adina Nordenberg) is a queer, first generation American painter of Lithuanian heritage. Movement marks their family’s histories, the cracks and mirrors of cultural memory, and disabilities’ interruptions. Expressive gestures permeate figurative stylizations. Cloaked and confessional, filled with obsessive tight marks, their work explores what emerges when you know enough to name a pain but not enough to absolve it. A patchwork process; images, from narrative or intuition, are collaged into reference points. Out-of-place imagery, high chroma, and a caricatured carving of surface cloaks unsettling disclosures, giving way to an eerie tone. Cathartic, confrontational, ritualistic painting flickers between coherence and chaos; orienting a rhizomatic self toward mercy and belonging.

Their work has been featured in the Fay Chandler Exhibition by the City of Boston, Midway Artist Gallery in Boston, and Shockboxx Gallery in LA. They have taught at the Garfield School through the City of Revere, spearheaded and facilitated some of Bostons first art critique initiatives, and organized an interdisciplinary art program at The Foundry spanning cinematography, painting, poetry, and movement.