bio

Dexter Vandersall (b. 1999, USA) is an artist currently based in New York City. He received a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Dexter Vandersall’s practice searches for exploitable tensions between form, material, subject, and history. He makes use of gestures and methods like sanding, carving, patination, and painting onto a range of materials, from inert glass to reactive metals, as well as traditional surfaces such as linen and paper. The sums of these processes are paintings that erode the figure-ground perception, coercing the object and viewer into unstable relational terrains. Vandersall’s work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad, with recent exhibitions including “Nostalgic Mayfly” at Stilllife, Shanghai, and “Comfort Zones” at New Uncanny Gallery, New York.