Shaina Kasztelan

Origin: Sterling Heights, Michigan
Birth Year: 1990

I was raised in a midwest suburb surrounded by rows of identical houses, ever-changing strip malls, and endless fast food franchises, all of which have influenced the materials and visual signifiers used in my work. Operating between painting, sculpture, collage and installation, I create psychedelic dreamscapes using kitsch consumer objects, craft ephemera, and plastic paint with an aesthetic that shuffles between curated control and disheveled mess. Through humorous juxtapositions, my work is critical of the pleasure and disgust many of us feel simultaneously due to the excessive consumption of manufactured goods and media prevalent under late capitalism. Demons to some, angels to others.

2c-B(irthday Cake), 2023

Beyond the Black Rainbow, 2023

Corrupt Connection, 2023

The Carnival's Glossy Ghosts, 2023

My Guardian Angel, 2024

You Are Always There For Me, 2023

Mystic Picnic, 2022