Callisto

Marleigh Culver’s original abstract paintings emerge from a deeply personal process that blends memory, emotion, and myth. Working intuitively, Culver allows paint to move and settle with minimal intervention, creating forms that feel both deliberate and organic—visual echoes of landscapes, feelings, and fleeting images stored in the subconscious. Rooted in a period shaped by both love and grief, this new body of work channels a softened strength, where compositional choices are guided by Rorschach-like impressions from memory and emotion. Each painting becomes a meditation on vulnerability, shaped as much by lived experience as by visual instinct. Titled after mythological beings and creatures, the works gesture toward symbolic narratives and internal worlds, anchoring ephemeral moments in form and color.