Avery Wheless, 1993, grew up in Petaluma, CA and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2015). Her paintings explore the existence of the female body in regards to the space they inhabit. Utilizing a combination of heavy, energized mark making and illustrative strokes, Wheless creates a stage on which figures play with the intimate interactions between subjects, and their roles as surveyors and as the surveyed.