Wesley Anderegg

“Diminutive in scale, Wesley Anderegg’s portraits, fashioned from the shoulders up, are activated by facial expressions and hand gestures embellished with accouterments, revealing their occupational trade: waiters, magicians, acrobats, pirates and more. Rather then being fashioned in a classical or heroic manner, the works are more in keeping with Bevis & Butthead; androgynous, quirky, agitated, angst-ridden, and down-right funny. The work also suggests influences of Modigliani’s elongated faces and the monumental heads of Easter Island. Forgoing romance, they pay homage to our anxious society, fraught with political conflict and social upheaval.”-Peter Held

Anderegg received his BS in Geography from Arizona State University, Tempe, and has been a Resident Artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, and at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.