Ashton Allen

ASHTON ALLEN


b. 1983, San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA



Ashton Allen was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She explores a range of subject matter in her work, from playful and sophisticated studies of color to dynamic compositions referencing the figure in emotionally abstracted form. She has extensively studied painting, drawing, and printmaking, and utilizes her facility with material to create layered pieces in which abstraction and representation are approached with equal narrative and formal depth. Interested in the way in which memory and identity become embodied, her forms move on the surface in a way that implies life detailed lines in pencil and strong paint on wood, or subtle working of watercolor into paper create a feeling of physical presence combined with intelligent thought amongst her forms. The audience may see moments of human flesh, implications of sea or botanical life, neurological connections, or the artist's internal dialogue, and the intentional breadth of possibility present in the work allows for each viewer to internalize the experience of the pieces in his or her own way. In her most recent serie...