§ About
§ About
About the artist
About the artist
About the artist
Engineer, designer, painter — three trainings, one voice.
Engineer, designer, painter — three trainings, one voice.
Born in 1985, Belarus. Works and lives in Philadelphia, USA. Dasha Wesel is a U.S.-based visual artist working in geometric abstraction and conceptual art. Her practice focuses on drawing and serial composition. A background in engineering and design shapes her precise, disciplined approach to creating layered systems of form, balance, and color.
Born in 1985, Belarus. Works and lives in Philadelphia, USA. Dasha Wesel is a U.S.-based visual artist working in geometric abstraction and conceptual art. Her practice focuses on drawing and serial composition. A background in engineering and design shapes her precise, disciplined approach to creating layered systems of form, balance, and color.
Wesel builds her work around the reconstruction of memory, mapping how personal narratives intersect with collective and socio-political histories. By interlocking geometric structures and bold colors into puzzle-like compositions, she challenges dominant social narratives and uses abstraction as a tool for resistance. Her ongoing investigation into shared experience invites viewers to navigate and confront fragments of their own lived realities.
Wesel has furthered her research as a Visiting Auditor at Princeton University. Her works have been featured in regional and local group exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia. She continues to develop her practice through a series of works from her Philadelphia studio.
Wesel builds her work around the reconstruction of memory, mapping how personal narratives intersect with collective and socio-political histories. By interlocking geometric structures and bold colors into puzzle-like compositions, she challenges dominant social narratives and uses abstraction as a tool for resistance. Her ongoing investigation into shared experience invites viewers to navigate and confront fragments of their own lived realities.
Wesel has furthered her research as a Visiting Auditor at Princeton University. Her works have been featured in regional and local group exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia. She continues to develop her practice through a series of works from her Philadelphia studio.
Artist Statement
My series are based on black-and-white drawings, lines, and simple geometric shapes. My method is to refine a single blueprint with every turn, using color to transform it into several separate paintings. To me, this is a metaphor: a single problem always has multiple solutions. And a single blueprint always has multiple stories.
We are all born with the same default settings, but our lives change based on our environment, upbringing, and how we are loved and perceived. My work is a bridge between memory and life at the very moment.
Memories combined with today's emotions fuel my creativity, acting as an awakening so we don't forget to live fully today. Through color, I breathe a new story into a "simple" blueprint, turning graphic lines into a colorful kaleidoscope on canvas.
I want to show that on any gray day, there is always color and light.
My series are based on black-and-white drawings, lines, and simple geometric shapes. My method is to refine a single blueprint with every turn, using color to transform it into several separate paintings. To me, this is a metaphor: a single problem always has multiple solutions. And a single blueprint always has multiple stories.
We are all born with the same default settings, but our lives change based on our environment, upbringing, and how we are loved and perceived. My work is a bridge between memory and life at the very moment.
Memories combined with today's emotions fuel my creativity, acting as an awakening so we don't forget to live fully today. Through color, I breathe a new story into a "simple" blueprint, turning graphic lines into a colorful kaleidoscope on canvas.
I want to show that on any gray day, there is always color and light.
Selected shows
3 entries
2023 •
Sep
NoName Gallery
Philadelphia
Group / Solo
2023 •
Aug
Perseus Gallery
New York — Manhattan / Soho
Group / Solo
2023 •
Mar
NoName Gallery
Philadelphia
Group / Solo