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Artist Exhibitions:
CAA Members Juried Prize Show,
Cambridge, MA, 2008
CAA NorthEast Prize Show,
Cambridge, MA, 2008
CAA Members Juried Prize Show,
Cambridge, MA, 2007
“Configurations”, artSPACE@16,
Malden, MA, 2006
LOVE SMALL, juried by Adria
Arch, artSPACE@16, Malden, MA,
2005
ARTSWorcester Biennial Show,
Worcester, MA, 2005
ARTSWorcester Members Show,
Worcester, ...
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Artist Statement for L. E. Ashley
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I have always been captivated by nature. And history – the stories behind people and buildings, objects and animals – the story behind the very ground I stand on. As a child I would spend a great deal of time wandering through fields and cemeteries, feeling the sun on my back and hearing the lonely birdcalls and rustling of wind in the trees. I felt compelled now and then to stoop and place my hand on the ground or run it along the weathered face of a gravestone.
I needed to touch and smell and examine my world. And I needed to find a way to express this in my art.
Several years ago,I happened upon an old cabinet door at a yard sale. An image formed, and slowly my path became clear; I could use my love for all things old–and my artwork–and combine them! The passion was aflame! I scoured basements, architectural salvage warehouses and scrap-yards for vintage bits of wood and old panels, then applied my oil painting as the focal point. Now, some time later, I am still progressing in this consuming direction. Currently, the images I create are atmospheric, isolated landscapes, often with a single barn or tree, sometimes with a solitary animal flitting across a field. The piece is then embellished with bits of rusty metal, vintage hardware, old photographs, or text – anything that I feel helps describe the image within. The completed works are usually quite small, providing a single viewer with an intimate moment to reflect upon her own past and perhaps that of her ancestors. Often there will be a small iron or wooden door to open, revealing a tiny painted world within – a personal, secret place to go when in need of peace...
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