About the Artist Cudelice Brazelton IV

The work of Cudelice Brazelton IV (b. 1991 in Dallas) moves between painting, sculpture, assemblage and collage. From fabric, leather, metal, cardboard and cosmetic elements he builds three-dimensional pieces that address identity, abstraction and the physicality of place, unsettling the boundaries between material, space and viewer. Two biographical sources run through the work: his earlier years as a steelworker in the American Midwest — a trade inherited from his father — and the imagery of cosmetics, familiar from his mother's hair salon. Brazelton studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (2017–2021) and at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture; he lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.