In The Shape of Desire, Tom Dash examines the glossy seduction of consumer culture through a series of bold, mixed media works that blur the line between high fashion, mass media, and fine art.

Using collage and acrylic on canvas, Dash constructs layered compositions that both celebrate and critique the visual codes of desire that dominate contemporary life. Dash uses Kate Moss—not simply as a supermodel, but as an icon in the Warholian sense: endlessly reproduced, flattened into symbol, consumed like a product. Much like Andy Warhol’s Marilyns, Moss becomes a stand-in for the cult of celebrity, the commercialization of individuality, and the loop of obsession and replication that defines pop culture. Dash extends Warhol’s legacy into the now, reimagining the muse not as myth, but as brand. Dash’s canvases exist in the tension between image and identity, surface and meaning. The Shape of Desire asks: What do we want, and who benefits from that wanting? In a world where aesthetics are currency and personality is packaging, Dash invites us to look harder at the machinery behind the image—and to question the price of attraction.