b. 1983
American
Born: Palm Springs, California, U.S.
Ashley Lyon is a sculptor who makes her home in Hornell, N.Y., where she is the Turner Teaching Fellow in ceramics at Alfred University and co-director of the Belfry, an artist-run exhibition space. She received a BFA in ceramics from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2006 and an MFA in sculpture and extended media at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. Her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the northeastern U.S. (including Arts in Craft Media 2013 at the Burchfield Penney) and in the Netherlands.
As one uncredited commentator has noted, Lyon's art "create[s] a dialectical relationship among space, viewer, image and the figurative object. [Lyon] meticulously hand builds all the components of her work, addressing many levels of realism in attempt to transcend traditional figuration." [1]
For more information on the artist's work, visit ashleylyon.com.
[1] Quotation and selected biographical information derived from statement on Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts website (author unknown), http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/by_year/2013/ashley_lyon.html. (Accessed 12/4/2013)