ABELLA D’ADAMO
Heatstroke Candy at WHAAM! 2025
2025
‘Heatstroke Candy’
WHAAM!, Chinatown, NYNew York, NY –– WHAAM! presents Heatstroke Candy, a group exhibition organized by Abella D'Adamo, featuring works by Chris Martin, COCO144, LAWE/ Sub 5 aka Chris Capuozzo, Chloée Maugile, Abella D’Adamo, Hunter Ney, Ruth Angel Edwards, and Wombat. On view from July 18 through August 22, 2025.
Heatstroke Candy conjures the delirious, overheated ecstasy of summer in the city: a sensory overload of lust, disaster, dream logic, and neon-slick madness. It’s a show about being alive outside, when reality warps in the humidity and anything—romance, danger, transcendence—feels possible.
This is the world seen through sun-glared eyes: sunlight stabbing your face, the metallic stink of hot pavement, sweat trickling down your back. You sip something freezing and sugary while watching strangers spiral, flirt, shout, disappear. The street becomes a stage. The mood is chaotic, dreamy, hyperreal.
Featuring artists who speak fluently in color, iconography, and emotional intensity, the exhibition radiates with heat and urgency. Chris Martin’s ecstatic abstractions thrum with texture and spiritual force, while COCO144 and LAWE aka Chris Capuozzo channel their legendary graffiti lineage into walls alive with motion and coded poetry. Chloée Maugile and Abella D’Adamo conjure explosive, glittering scenes rich with cinematic allusion, musical echoes, fantasy, and obsession. Hunter Ney dissects pop culture’s decay and its manufactured myths, and Ruth Angel Edwards weaves punk incantation with a kind of feminist media shamanism. Wombat brings their signature energy indoors with a new painting that translates the chaotic rhythms of the street into a feral, heat-drunk canvas pulsing with defiance and delirium.
Heatstroke Candy is sweet, volatile, and unnerving—like a fever you don’t want to break. It’s a show about what happens when our internal worlds spill out into the streets, cracked open by heat, hunger, and hope.
‘Heatstroke Candy’
WHAAM!, Chinatown, NYNew York, NY –– WHAAM! presents Heatstroke Candy, a group exhibition organized by Abella D'Adamo, featuring works by Chris Martin, COCO144, LAWE/ Sub 5 aka Chris Capuozzo, Chloée Maugile, Abella D’Adamo, Hunter Ney, Ruth Angel Edwards, and Wombat. On view from July 18 through August 22, 2025.
Heatstroke Candy conjures the delirious, overheated ecstasy of summer in the city: a sensory overload of lust, disaster, dream logic, and neon-slick madness. It’s a show about being alive outside, when reality warps in the humidity and anything—romance, danger, transcendence—feels possible.
This is the world seen through sun-glared eyes: sunlight stabbing your face, the metallic stink of hot pavement, sweat trickling down your back. You sip something freezing and sugary while watching strangers spiral, flirt, shout, disappear. The street becomes a stage. The mood is chaotic, dreamy, hyperreal.
Featuring artists who speak fluently in color, iconography, and emotional intensity, the exhibition radiates with heat and urgency. Chris Martin’s ecstatic abstractions thrum with texture and spiritual force, while COCO144 and LAWE aka Chris Capuozzo channel their legendary graffiti lineage into walls alive with motion and coded poetry. Chloée Maugile and Abella D’Adamo conjure explosive, glittering scenes rich with cinematic allusion, musical echoes, fantasy, and obsession. Hunter Ney dissects pop culture’s decay and its manufactured myths, and Ruth Angel Edwards weaves punk incantation with a kind of feminist media shamanism. Wombat brings their signature energy indoors with a new painting that translates the chaotic rhythms of the street into a feral, heat-drunk canvas pulsing with defiance and delirium.
Heatstroke Candy is sweet, volatile, and unnerving—like a fever you don’t want to break. It’s a show about what happens when our internal worlds spill out into the streets, cracked open by heat, hunger, and hope.
UMBILICUSRAINBOWEXPLOSION - 2024
2024
‘UMBILICUSRAINBOWEXPLOSION’
Strawberry, Brunswick MelbourneCurated by Grace Anderson and Caesar Florence-Howard.
A one night only performance.
Poster design by Abella D’Adamo.
Exhibition text by Agnes Delany.
Photography by Sammy-Jo Lang-Waite and Lucy de Palma. Videography by Lucy de Palma. VIEW HERE Original soundscape by Adam Gottlieb. VIEW HERE
‘UMBILICUSRAINBOWEXPLOSION’
Strawberry, Brunswick MelbourneCurated by Grace Anderson and Caesar Florence-Howard.
A one night only performance.
Poster design by Abella D’Adamo.
Exhibition text by Agnes Delany.
Photography by Sammy-Jo Lang-Waite and Lucy de Palma. Videography by Lucy de Palma. VIEW HERE Original soundscape by Adam Gottlieb. VIEW HERE
2022
‘TAPE YOU’Centre D’Editions, Fitzroy MelbourneCurated by Zac Segbedzi and Evie Poggioli.
Presentation of Abella D’Adamo’s pornographic film debut ‘TAPE YOU’.
Poster design by Abella D’Adamo.
Exhibition text by Harriet Morgan.
Photography by Tim Hardy.
‘TAPE YOU’Centre D’Editions, Fitzroy MelbourneCurated by Zac Segbedzi and Evie Poggioli.
Presentation of Abella D’Adamo’s pornographic film debut ‘TAPE YOU’.
Poster design by Abella D’Adamo.
Exhibition text by Harriet Morgan.
Photography by Tim Hardy.