
BFA: kCAI 1999
Silo Gallery 2025
KCAI Alumni Exhibit 2025
NhA MiNH 2025
Shelter Now 2025
57W57 ARTS 2025
PIDGIN 2024
FRANKLIN PARRASCH 2004
ALDRICH MUSEUM 2001
BIO
Ashley is a New York based ceramic sculptor who earned her BFA in painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and at Franklin Parrasch Gallery. Her sculptures have appeared in publications such as Wallpaper and Ceramics Monthly. She lives in Ridgewood, Queens.
Statement
‘My work begins with a human movement that has caught my eye during the day—a gesture or stumble or maneuver—and that has produced an emotional or psychological resonance. I want to remember these moments, or try to resolve them. The sculptures grow out of necessary opposites: as still signs of movement they are complete but elastic, abstracted but figured, pleasant but strange. From day to day, depending on what a viewer brings to it, the same movement may shift—from languid to apprehensive to purposeful to alert. The sculptures are open objects, bypassing language to live in a more instinctive form of relation.’
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