Rachel Morrissey created her newest body of colorfully saturated narrative paintings with the Colony Hotel in mind. With BLOOM, Morrissey melds imaginary, strange and inventive flowers with truthful depictions of Florida’s native fruits and fauna. Using themes of motherhood, mental health, and more recently life with Lupus, Morrissey employs organic forms to enticingly convey her daily experiences.

While Rachel Morrissey’s work is absent of figures, her limb-like, nature inspired, abstractions almost resemble the human form; Daniel Adenitan’s paintings focus on the body as a subject matter, while his playful patterns and subtract shapes take on a life of their own. Both series speak of human presence – one with the figure, and one without. Both Morrissey and Adenitan have a powerful use of energy, precision, color, which in turn create a wonderful tempo side by side.