Claire Ashley: Studying color & scale through form

Описание: In Painting/Printmaking's fourth Visiting Artist Lecture of the spring semester, Claire Ashley shares her practice of gestural, colorful, monumental installation.

Claire Ashley is a Scottish-born, Chicago-based artist that mines the language of painterly abstraction, monumental sculpture, slapstick humor, and Pop Art to transform ordinary materials into inflatable painted sculptures. Claire Ashley received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BFA from Gray’s School of Art in Scotland. Currently, she teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Practices, and the Department of Painting and Drawing. Her work has been shown internationally at such venues as Art Basel in Germany, the Tetley Center for Contemporary Art in England, the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and most recently alongside some other incredible artists in the show, Portable Sculpture, at the Henry Moore Institute in the UK.

Learn more about the artist on her website: https://clairehelenashley.com/

This talk was hosted by, and the above bio was authored by, Curtis Welteroth, Painting/Printmaking MFA '21.