Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, #1 Collage

Ashley Normal believes that everyone creates and lives in their own reality. Her work stretches across various media and deals with: mental illness, memory, taboo, normality, sexuality, and gender. Normal makes observations in what is already there, finding the bizarre and absurd in the familiar. Engaging the viewer in play, the work hides and reveals; illuminating shame, guilt, and the socially forbidden. Her influences include Dada, Pop Art, Surrealism, Confessional art, and the Feminist art movements. Normal’s work has been exhibited in several solo and group shows in New England and beyond including: STUDIO 659, Whiting, IN; Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY; 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH; and Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME. Normal completed her MFA at MassArt in 2015 and splits her time between Coastal Maine and Boston.