Reception Friday, April 24 from 6-9 pm

Cassidy Ott Hubba Hubba Bubba, 2026

Cassidy Ott is an interdisciplinary painter and comic artist who explores the dynamic intersection of the everyday and what she describes as “viscerality” within her work. She uses painting to find equal weight in our sociocultural environments and our physical bodies. Ott examines how we continuously construct and deconstruct our sense of self, while also investigating the absurdities of inhabiting a physical body. Drawing from neuroscience, comics, and self-portraiture, her work often considers the shifting tension between nature and nurture.

Ranging from frenetic abstraction to devotional figuration, Ott employs a range of painterly approaches to express the role of fragmentation in forming a more complete sense of self. Themes of consumption run throughout her work—whether through the ways cultural systems shape identity, or how the female body is often positioned as something to be consumed. Through varied processes and visual languages, Ott builds a body of work that reflects the complexity of understanding oneself.

Cassidy earned her BA in Art, with a double minor in Neuroscience and Psychology, from the University of Alaska Anchorage. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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