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My art is about longing, an indescribable yet pervasive desire that does not have a specific remedy or definition.It is a tangible way for me to speak to the individual and collective unknown, to console that which haunts the soul and cherish that which makes us human.
Using found objects and antique photographs, I assemble borrowed sepia-toned memories, distant yet familiar ancestries, and sensations that have yet to be articulated in hazy dream vignettes laden with codes and clues. I draw the viewer into the past so that the relationship with the work is more unconscious than readily recalled.Spooky and quietly illuminating, the work speaks to the story of the shadow, the dark and glorious that resides within all of us.
The objects and images in my work may also be combined with organic materials, sometimes forced into complex acrobatics in a demonstration of extremes.The objects’ forced physicality denotes an exaggeration of opposites and boundaries - delicacy is challenged by tension, permanence threatened by impermanence. Leaves and twigs are stitched to old photographs that can in one unpredictable moment be torn apart and forever destroyed; the vulnerability of the leaf is violated by the prick of the needle, making for strange bedfellows of fierce and fragile.But faith resides in their being bound together; harmony ultimately wrought from perseverance and balance.
Professional background:
Ashley McLean Emenegger has been an active leader in the artistic community since 1997. She founded McLean Fine Art in September 2004. Ashley lectures extensively and has provided workshops through MOCA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles County Arts Commission among many others. She is also the Director of Bandini Art Gallery in Culver City. Ashley has curated multiple fine art and video exhibitions throughout Los Angeles and nation-wide. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in the Los AngelesTimes,LA Weekly, the LA Business Journal, Artscene, Artweek, and Review Magazine. She also serves as curator and arts advisor to nonprofit groups. In addition, Ashley is an exhibiting visual artist.
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2007, Found vintage tin type, white beeswax, torn pages from various books, buttons, thread, clothes pins, spools, dirt, antique porcelain doll head, bones, rust, vintage wooden box, 8” x 8 ¾ “ x 4 ¼ “
2007, Bone, torn page from book, vintage photo, plastic peacock, police man, vintage Korean match box, playing cards, twine, thread, crocheted quilt square, 8 ½” x 8 ½”
2007, beeswax, antique doily, flowers dipped in white beeswax, vintage matches, twigs, string, antique locket, vintage photo, acorns, acrylic and lacquer on wood , 23” x 8 ½
2007, Gilded wish bones, thread, torn pages from various books, bees in white beeswax, acrylic and lacquer on pine, brass placard , 3 ¾” x 8 ¾” x 11 ½”
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