Artist Statement
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I'm Ash-- a free-lance artist with a studio arts degree from Santa Clara University, with emphasis in sculpture and painting .With my multi-media approach, resourcefulness has to be met with a lot of beautification and crafty ways of convincing contrasting materials to be friendly. My aesthetic works within the style of a retro-maximalism in the subculture of surrealism. In painting, I often utilize bright contrasting colors and backgrounds, with overarching images or focuses that imply a certain level of dissonance. My sculptures have mostly been welded and sewn displays of enlarged inanimate objects that are representative of social injustices and inequalities. Metalwork, in this sense, is resonant line work – this is met with a nearly incongruous use of sewn fabric, to create different planes and to evoke a sense of multi-dimensionality. The difference in these mediums serve a level of juxtaposition that is also translatable to the innocence of the inanimate objects, and the misdeeds that are symbolized by them.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. |
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In 2021, I was selected by faculty at Santa Clara University to receive the Mary F. Sullivan and Gerald P Sullivan S.J.
Scholarship Award. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding students in their junior year who have excelled in the area of figurative art. The Sullivan scholarship was originally funded by Fr. Sullivan and his mother to recognize and honor outstanding figurative focused students. This is a merit-based scholarship, which is very rare and is based solely upon your performance as a student in art classes. Fr. Sullivan taught figure drawing and painting for almost forty years at Santa Clara and helped to form the foundational idea of drawing as the basis for a degree in studio art. 
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