Adam Alessi

Adam Alessi (b. 1994, Camarillo, California) is a Los Angeles–based painter whose self‑taught practice channels a surreal, unsettling vision of the human figure.  Working in oil on linen, he stages characters that hover between folk‑tale masks, horror film stills and the uncanny corridors of childhood memory.  His early works were executed rapidly—“I was making a painting in a day,” he has said—while recent canvases take weeks, even months, exploring a “stream of consciousness” aesthetic.