Ashton Phillips

Ashton S. Phillips is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA, working directly with the earth, water, pollution, taboo, and repair as primary materials. He is interested in the wisdom hidden within the material environment, including our physical bodies, and in the promise of queer ecological praxis, interspecies collaboration, and experimental “play” as pathways for making meaning and sustainable being in the late Anthropocene.

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA

2018
Melting Pot/Melting Point, Museum of Encaustic Art, Santa Fe, NM (juried by Francisco Benitez)
The Non-Objective Moment, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Art Consultant Lonnie Lardner)
Hecho a Mano, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by curator Jill Moniz)
Albuquerque Abstracts 2.0, Southwest University of the Visual Arts (juried by Profs. Ren Adams & Jessica Kennedy)
"Resolve/Evolve," Ghostwolf Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (artist panel discussion)
2017
"Ancient Alchemy", Ghostwolf Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (solo show & artist talk)
"The Art of Healing", Gallery for a Cause, New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM (curator & artist talk)
"Ave," Art123 Gallery, Gallup, NM (solo show & artist talk)
"Guns to Arts," form & concept gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Face-palm Patriots" KD Neeley Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
"The Mystery Deepens," Galleria Carnivale, El Morro, NM
"Saving Places," Denver Convention Center, Denver, CO
Juried State Fair Fine Arts Show, Fine Arts Gallery, State Fair Grounds, Albuquerque, NM
2016
"ArtBank", Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
"Juried Small Works Show", New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, NM
Red Rock Arts Festival, Moab, UT (award)
Paint Annapolis, Gallery 49 W...