Year of Residency: 2025
Xavier B. Wormack is a multidisciplinary artist whose work merges painting, illustration, film, and fashion into a textured, evolving language. Using acrylics, pastels, charcoal, textiles, and unexpected materials, Xavier examines how identity shifts in response to place, memory, and internal dialogue. Their practice is grounded in discipline — setting aside time each day to sketch, paint, sew, or research, a routine they describe as “sharpening my pencil,” both literally and mentally.
Moving between canvas and wearable design, Xavier builds work that carries a strong sense of introspection and structure. Each piece offers a glimpse into the mind of an artist deeply committed to craft, experimentation, and continual refinement.
My work focuses on the evolving self — the versions we build, shed, and reassemble as our lives change. I work in layers, using mixed media to map the way memory and experience stack on top of one another. Neegus and Enigma grew from my interest in how people adjust to different roles and environments, and how those adjustments slowly become part of our personal framework.
My practice is intentional: I carve out time every day to sketch, draw, paint, sew, or research to ensure I am always “sharpening my pencil.” This discipline shapes the way my pieces form. Each work becomes a translation of thought into structure — not for the sake of answers, but to track the ongoing movement of becoming. My art is an attempt to give shape to internal shifts, the tension between perception and truth, and the quiet transformations that define who we are.
