Pigments are generally understood as superfine particles that won’t dissolve in a liquid. They don’t dissolve, they hold on to time.

When I make paint, nothing is synthesized here, or newly created - we can call it syncretic, every thing is simply brought together.

The particles and the oil make a collective, they hold a film together.

Think water and sand. Iron-oxide and walnut oil.

I make paintings and performances about gathering. a strike, a riot. a sex party, dancing, a performance, a dream

About transitions and transformations.

Pigments and paintings are both records of time.

\They can record when we gather together with joy or mourning, and they can retain waves of erasure, sorrow, and tragedy.

Both my paintings and performances are events – they are a thing that happens.

Adi Blaustein Rejto was born in Poughkeepsie, NY (1995). She lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and the Mid Hudson Valley.