Claire Helen Ashley
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Name
Claire Helen Ashley
Job title
Artist and Teacher
About
Scottish born, Chicago-based artist Claire Ashley mines the language of painterly abstraction, monumental sculpture, and slapstick humor to investigate inflatables as painting, sculpture, installation and performance costume.
These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, site-specific installations, performances and collaborations such as the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK, Beacon Arts Center, Scotland, the Louis Kahn Library at Phillips Exeter Academy, NH, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR, and the Chicago Cultural Center, IL, among many others. Her work has been featured on blogs such as Studio International, VICE, Hyperallergic, and Artforum, and in magazines such as Sculpture Magazine, Art Papers, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago, Yorkshire Post, and Condé Nast Traveller (European).
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 lives in the cornfields of Illinois with her old husband, and a menagerie of pets. Her three offspring have flown the coop.
Full Bio can be found at: https://clairehelenashley.com/about
Region
Glasgow