Brooklyn based painter and sculptor Annabelle Abel (b. 2001) informs her work using memories of girlhood in Texas and journey navigating womanhood. With strong themes of nostalgia in singular moments and unreliable memory, her work focuses on the marriage of past and future - omission of the present. 

Her body of work utilizes oil paint and polymer clay sculpture to tell stories of womanhood and recovery. Her painted subjects aim to evoke the feeling of reading a text written by an unreliable narrator. Emphasis on the feeling of inconsistent presence in one’s body, and subsequent hallmark memories of clear moments through imagery of both the figurative and textural. Her sculptures combine wood and polymer clay to create the texture of childhood in the South. Through both mediums she aims to evoke a sense of stifled whimsy. 

Annabelle Abel is a multimedia artist born in 2001 in Austin, Texas, and currently resides in Brooklyn. Her work primarily consists of oil paintings, as well as polymer clay sculpture. Her practice is self taught and focuses on themes of womanhood, memory, and recovery. Her exhibitions include group show “222” at The Living Gallery (2024), "Summer Solstice" at Kaleidoscope gallery BK (2024) from Chainmail Art Collective, and "Sunlight" a group show at The Living Gallery (2023).