Elise Adibi is an artist and writer with a background in philosophy and architecture. She created a 6-month installation of plants and oil paintings in the greenhouse of Henry Clay Frick at The Frick museum in Pittsburgh (Respiration Paintings, 2017) and wrote Subtle Affinity (2018) published in Forty-Five: A Journal for Outdoor Research. Some of her solo gallery shows include, A Priori (2010), Da Capo (2012) and Substance (2015) all in New York and Metabolic Painting in Cambridge MA (2013).