Claire Ashley
Cloud Chatter Spudnik
Claire Ashley
2018
Screen print on paper with sharpie marker
22” x 30”
Cloud Chatter Spudnik 1
Claire Ashley
2018
Screen print on paper with sharpie marker
22” x 30”
Cloud Chatter Spudnik 2
Claire Ashley
2018
Screen print on paper with sharpie marker
22” x 30”
Cloud Chatter Spudnik 3
Claire Ashley
2018
Screen print on paper with sharpie marker
22” x 30”
Cloud Chatter Spudnik 4
Claire Ashley
2018
Screen print on paper with sharpie marker
22” x 30”
Cloud Chatter Spudnik 5
Claire Ashley
2018
Screen print on paper with sharpie marker
22” x 30”
Cloud Chatter Spudnik 6
Claire Ashley
2018
Screen print on paper with sharpie marker
22” x 30”
BT Buffalo Brave Plane 5
Claire Ashley
2017
Spray paint on paper with colored pencil
18” x 24”
Facet202
Claire Ashley
2017
Spray paint on paper with colored pencil
18” x 24”
Facet111
Claire Ashley
2017
Spray paint on paper with colored pencil
18” x 24”
Facet114
Claire Ashley
2017
Spray paint on paper with colored pencil
18” x 24”
Facet116
Claire Ashley
2017
Spray paint on paper with colored pencil
18” x 24”
Facet119
Claire Ashley
2017
Spray paint on paper with colored pencil
18” x 24”
About the Artist
Scottish-born, Chicago-based artist Claire Ashley mines the language of painterly abstraction, monumental sculpture, slapstick humor, and Pop Art to transform ordinary materials into inflatable painted sculptures.
Ashley received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and her BFA from Gray’s School of Art (Aberdeen, 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. She has an old husband, three fabulous young adults, two dogs and two cats.
Past exhibition: The Cube, DEMI - B.A.I.R.N.S. (A Gaggle)
Print & Object is proud to announce the opening of B.A.I.R.N.S, (A Gaggle) by artist Claire Ashley, in collaboration with The Cube, Demi. Known for her maximal inflatable sculptures that explode the possibilities of painting into gestures of living skins gorged with volume and saturated in color and texture, Ashley’s new series inverts the power of size with grandeur and wit.
Germinated from the lineage of her 'mothership' inflatable, B.A.I.R.N.S, (A Gaggle) introduces the petit offsets shed from the mighty progenitor. Dependent on air, some of these children are plump full of the sustenance
of one deep breath held permanently in their body. While others are in formation, living on life support, learning to breathe with miniature fans that push small amounts of air through them. These neonates have not yet cast off their protective, slick, lumpy, textured, and cushioned skin that wards off bumps and bruises.
The mini descendants are playfully precarious explorations into scale, domestic space, and surface tension, speaking directly to the enigmatic qualities of The Cube, Demi. A site of contradictions, The Cube, Demi is a project space that is small in scale yet mighty in mission. In collaboration with Print & Object, The Cube is where an exhibition space and an editions program meet.
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