Grayson Cassels
North Carolina-based painter Grayson Cassels is a current undergraduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University.
She says: “My work investigates the female form in three specific spaces: in wellness culture, digital spheres, and in Southern communities. In creating this body of work, I grappled with my femininity, shame, sexual health, and bodily ownership through my personal experience and research. I used paint and mixed media to create capsules that depict optimism and pain, tradition and innovation, and transcend through time periods. These capsules exhibit the female form in the current state of the world, my specific experiences, and in a fictional digital reality.”