photograph by @thesparrowseye

 

Ashley Addair

Recited in alternating tones of delight and exasperation, her work wrestles with macro questions at an individual and familial scale. Examining how the particulars and pace of our age interface with the messy complexity of our inner landscapes she questions socially constructed notions and ruminates on the relationship between physical and ideological structures.

She explores the transformative implications of relating to one another and our environments at the edge of our understanding. Issues of class are important to the way she thinks about who is invited into the conversation, and she makes work that functions as phenomena to be experienced and related to without societal barriers to entry or mediation from authority. Addair is currently pursuing her MFA at The Art Institute of Chicago.