Braeden LaRoche

An aesthetic passion for the obscure meets a studied fascination with the natural sciences in Braeden LaRoche’s paintings of alien worlds, which explore the evolutionary history of speculative lifeforms and their environments. Inspired by both science fiction and the complexities of Earth’s past and present, his syntheses of biological trends and invented biospheres populate landscapes from irradiated deserts to abyssal seas while preserving empirical rigor. He studies at the University of South Carolina. Find his art @twisting.depths on Instagram.