Mores McWreath (www.willwestlake.com) was born in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1980.  He received a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts.  He attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2008-09.  He has had solo shows in New York at CUE Art Foundation (curated by Andrea Zittel) and in Los Angeles at Kunsthalle M+B.  Recent group exhibitions have been at The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Art in General, ISCP NY, Walker Art Center, and John Connelly Presents.  His work has been screened in festivals and exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

My art interrogates and re-stages the fragmented nature of human subjectivity using video, photography, sculpture, and painting. These artworks actively oppose the dominant cultural assumption of a unified subject.  This investigation often leads to a deconstructive self-analysis.  It is not a need to "know" one’s true self because that seems an impossible task, but it is rather a need to make public the theater of perceptions that form individual subjectivities.  The goal is to take the vaudevillian theater of the mind and project it out for others to access for the sake of identification.

My body appears in my work as stacks of pieces and parts.  These piles of rubble are composed of clips, segments, and quotations from private and public, real and imagined histories.  They perform on camera in short bursts of dialogue, action or sculpture.  The Internet has created access routes to a flood of media that I channel through various screens and filter into my work as references, homage, transformations, and appropriations.  The juxtaposition of fragmentary elements culled from the world of images creates a visual and textual metaphor for the nature of human existence in the face of overwhelming information.