In Mixed Feelings Color Pains, the dartboard is the instrument through which Marable’s complex color investigations take form. His homage to the circle. The repetitive paintings’ geometry not only echoes targets to aim at, but also pie charts of statistical breakdowns. Their exploded sections, blurred lines, ornamentation, and painted beauty make them a dizzying landscape in which to play the game of darts. And that is what Marable wants, to make the player contemplate what they are taking aim at. A painting? A person? An idea? Which colors spark their memory, pull their desire, or trouble their aversion? The game, under this new lens, becomes more charged- a quiet rupture from the innocent fun it usually provides.

Acacia Marable (b. 1988, Seattle) works across drawing, painting, and sculpture, developing ideas through distinct series. Repetition is integral to his process of investigating power and rupture in its many social, political, sexual and emotional forms. He engages nontraditional and found materials, the functions and histories of which become malleable parameters-broadened to the brink of absurdity, reiterated to the point of transformation, or redirected toward unexpected meanings. Emotional and critical weight are conveyed through codes that exceed the limits of language with humor, abstraction, and color. Marable held his first solo presentation at Human Resources, LA (2025). His work has been shown in exhibitions at Eric Firestone, NY; Moran Moran, LA; 14’ x 48’ Shandaken Projects, NY; Artist Curated Projects, LA; Carlye Packer, LA and California Museum of Photography, among others. The first book in his ongoing, collaborative drawing-psychoanalysis project, Penis Envy, was published in 2024; the second volume, Foucault’s Perverts, is forthcoming. Marable lives in Los Angeles.