Marcela Adeze Okeke renders those she is committed to. Beginning as a painter, the artist has since integrated dyeing, textiles, printing and sculpture into a multidisciplinary practice. Her work, often depicting her community in repose surrounded by colorful dreamscapes, reflects the artist’s personal search for communal and familial tranquility through the unsettling terrain of generational trauma, mental health and personal myth. Okeke has shown at the Chicago Cultural Center, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, Freeport Art Museum, internationally at Nafasi Art Space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, among others. Their paintings have been featured in multiple publications, including New American Paintings and Chicago Reader, and their prints have been distributed internationally by the UN Human Right to Adequate Housing Campaign. Okeke is a previous resident of Nafasi Art Space and Vashon Artist Residency, with an upcoming residency at Mendocino Art Center.