Carol Adelman is a painter who mines and stretches traditions of painting to embrace contemporary ideas of constructed identity and a fragmented self. Using a sensual, aggressive approach to materials that embraces the sculptural properties of paint, she melds observed figures, domestic objects and spaces with art historical sources into tableaus that explore the layered inner and outer forces that formulate identity. She has an MFA from the University of Washington and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her exhibitions include Bowery Gallery in NYC, Washington Studio School in Wash. DC, Meloy Gallery in Bellingham among other venues.