ISSUE 15

A Moment with Artist, Parme Marin

If you’ve ever stepped into our Williamsburg café, you’ve experienced her work.

Paris-born, New York–based artist Parme Marin fills the space with forms, paintings, and mixed media that quietly demand attention and beckon you to pause, step closer, and feel something. Her art becomes part of the rhythm here, woven into the café itself, a living backdrop to conversation and coffee.

A moment in her LES studio makes you understand why. We rode up in a loft elevator that looked like a birdcage, the kind where you have to close the gate before it moves. Upon entering her studio, one wall immediately drew our attention. It was covered in a dense collage of swatches of fabric, photographs of dancers, strands of hair, and bursts of color. Operating as her mood-board, this wall offered a glimpse into the textures, impulses, and ideas that shape her work.

The remaining walls were draped in her canvases. Figures and forms danced through the space, some layered with color, others with texture. You could see the marks of her process: brushstrokes, scraps of material, and elements overlapping. Sunlight spilled in from the window while the hum of the street below filtered in.

When we asked Marin what she hopes viewers take from her work, she said simply: she hopes it evokes reaction.

And in our Williamsburg café her art does just that.