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Résumé

Ashley Goldberg

Ashley Goldberg is inspired by a childhood making crafts at her grandmother's in Missouri - where stories could abound in her mind along with imaginary friends and places. In making her work she recalls these experiences, creating images of small woodland creatures, kids and kitties, forests of trees and landscapes reminiscent of patchwork quilt-like farmland as viewed from above in an airplane. She has used sewing and fabric drawings as a familiar means of expression as well as simple yet expressive ink drawings on small pieces of colored paper and most recently, digital printing.

As quickly as we too grow up and recall our childhood like it was yesterday - in about a year and a half to be exact - her work evolved into nostalgic and humorous portraiture of men in beards, family dynamics, and ultimately babies with mustaches. Yes, that's right - babies and women, too - with mustaches. She has also made series of women and the candid conversations that they have with each other and people having fond and bittersweet moments.

Here we have an artist on a roll, an artist of unprecedented popularity. Her increased success and humble passion for art making facilitated the fact that her boyfriend quit his day-job to become her full-time assistant, hence the new entity known as "Ashley and Drew": powerhouse of indie art-print making. We are immensely happy to have helped launch Ashley's art career and look forward to watching and exposing the continual evolution of her work.

Selected Exhibitions

Internal Environments 2008 - Project Forefront and Ongoing - beginning in May 2008 (press release)
"Conversations" - 2 (press release) person exhibition - August 2007
A. Goldberg has been exhibiting consistently in our salon since August 2006. She is recently most well-known for her "Bearded Guys" series of prints.

2008 Reception Dates

May 10th
June 28th
August 9th
September 27th

Résumé

Ashley Goldberg, 26, works with her boyfriend creating digital art from their apartment as Ashley G & Drew. Ashley's found a way to work a childhood full of drawing into an adult's life. The characters she creates, whether monsters or little girls, are simple, humorous, empathetic, and a little bit pathetic.

"I strongly believe what you're happiest doing at five is what you will be happiest doing your entire life. Growing up, I endlessly drew and embroidered onto washcloths that my grandma gave me. I made little creatures and animals that I desperately wanted to live in the woods of my backyard. In my mind these creatures had tiny, magnificent, ornate lairs in the trunks of old trees (which I also drew, along with maps of how to get there). And although these creatures were elusive and shy, they always decided to befriend me. Over the years, my creatures have become decidedly more design-driven, put a part of me is still just drawing little friends to have."

Group Shows

2007

"On the Way Home", Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
"(un)limited", Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH
"Picks of the Harvest IV", ThinkSpace, Los Angeles, CA
"Plush You! II", Schmancy, Seattle, WA

Current Gallery Representation

Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
Velocity Art and Design, Seattle, WA
Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH