Wesley Swanson

I’m an abstract painter drawn to instinct, contradiction, and the quiet violence of memory. My work resists easy interpretation, leaning into ambiguity with intent—each piece a negotiation between control and chaos, gesture and erasure. I paint fr...

I’m an abstract painter drawn to instinct, contradiction, and the quiet violence of memory. My work resists easy interpretation, leaning into ambiguity with intent—each piece a negotiation between control and chaos, gesture and erasure. I paint from lived experience, queer identity, and the raw edge of neurodivergence. My paintings and sketches don’t behave. There’s no polished narrative here—just texture, tension, and something real scraped raw beneath the surface. What emerges isn’t about answers. It’s about presence: what’s been left behind, what insists on staying, and what refuses to be named.