by Ashleigh Sumner for our summer exhibition season.
Touch the Sky contains new collages created through Ashleigh’s use of repurposed printed matter such as street posters, luxury brand shopping bags, and Nike shoe boxes. This selection of source material allows Ashleigh to blend text, color, and create vibrant line work in her multi-layered compositions. For her, these fragments of paper are a study in the cultural remnants that we as a society leave behind and work as a visual abstract exploration into our relationship with corporate branding. The artworks in the exhibition are created on circular panels that range in size from 24 to 72 inches in diameter.
About the Artist Ashleigh Sumner is a contemporary painter living and working out of East Oakland, CA. Sumner received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Western Carolina University before moving west to Los Angeles in 2003 and then north to Oakland, California in 2017. Her early artistic career is firmly rooted in theatre arts with professional credits in stage, independent queer film, and network television. Her years of experience as a performer provided a natural evolution of translating elements of text into the visual medium of painting.
Exhibition on view June 1 through August 31, 2024
Artist reception: Saturday, June 1, from 5-7pm
