Grayson Cassels

USA, b. 2000

Painter | Based in Mexico City

Using the female body as a vessel, Cassels approaches her subjects not as fixed forms but as sites of continual exchange between human and animal, organism and machine, body and bot.

Her work implores viewers to question where one body ends and another begins through the use of symbolic and anecdotal imagery—parasites, wishbones, animal carcasses, and fragmented anatomies—alongside references to interfaces, and distortion. The resulting compositions feature alternating dense and smooth applications of paint which echo the conceptual tension between the grotesque and the intimate.

Cassels’s work presents her subjects as sites of memory, technology, and intrusion, challenging whether the body has ever been and/or could ever be inherently natural.