Adeleye Ademola (b. 1991) is a contemporary artist residing in Memphis, TN. He paints “tapestries of thought”, exploring themes such as spirit, money, fame, popular culture, and the inner psyche. Utilizing bold colors, expressive mark-making, and familiar imagery, Adeleye’s work strikes a harmonious balance between figurative and abstract, producing results similar to icon paintings of the past. There is a poetry to his paintings, utilizing text as a figure in itself, carrying the eye across the surface through narrative world play. Adeleye seeks to portray life as it is, stripping away the veneer that covers our view of the world. His paintings reveal a deeper truth, showing the inherent contradictions of society - the backwards nature of that which is presented to us, the dangers behind a facade of harmlessness.