Thorsen Kursél is a “garage” painter and maker that explores the relationship between ordinary life experiences and their social-metaphysical implications. He uses an improvisational method of art making anchored in the formality of paint, gesture and mark making. His process emphasizes the suggestive power of materials as themes of representation, uncertainty and identity emerge. They combine with elements from art history, popular culture, the supernatural and vernacular culture to form novel compositions and surprising narratives. His installations employ a playful use of scale and representation creating a chronicle of existence steeped with questions of purpose and mortality. Kursél collects studio, construction, and trade materials and transforms them into objects that critique sexuality, religion, masculinity, and anthropology. Across a diverse media Kurséls practice shares a vocabulary consisting of bricolage creatures who collide with our notions of familiarity.