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.