Wes Aderhold paints the collapse of the curated self through a reinvention of cubism - reassembling the face and body into sites of rupture and contradiction. His figures fracture between allure and annihilation, exposing the toll of identity from the suffocating polish of suburban facades to the relentless performance of the digital feed. In his work, comedy mutates into terror, beauty curdles into brutality and persona collapses under its own weight. His work is not portraiture but the reassembly of what it costs to be human.

Aderhold lives and works in New York.

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