Lives and works in East Chatham, NY
Represented by SEPTEMBER Gallery
Ashley Garrett is an abstract painter whose works, "through their swirling forms, capricious brushstrokes, and passages of brilliant light, capture the vibrant forces of nature. It is as if the forests in which Artemis hunted or the seas which wrecked Odysseus’s ship are given agency in Garrett’s work and begin to tell their own tales of turmoil and splendor.” —Robert R. Shane, The Brooklyn Rail
Garrett has exhibited her work internationally for more then 10 years. Solo shows include in SEPTEMBER Gallery (Kinderhook and Hudson, NY), Gold / Scopophilia Gallery (Montclair, NJ), and Hood Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). Her work has shown in group exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art (NY), Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), the Painting Center (New York), NURTUREart (Brooklyn, NY), Cross Contemporary Art (Saugerties, NY), among others. Her work has been reviewed in Two Coats of Paint, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Spiel, and Caesura Magazine, among others. Recent shows include her second solo exhibition at SEPTEMBER Gallery and Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beach, FL.
Garrett has collaborated with poets, including Billie Chernicoff, Tamas Panitz, Robert Kelly, George Quasha, and Lila Dunlap, who have written ekphrastic poems to her paintings.
EDUCATION
2008 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2002-05 Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Ambrosia, SEPTEMBER Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
2021 Meadow, Gold / Scopophilia Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2020 Ashley Garrett: Aegis, SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 Creek's Risin', Hood Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Slater, Chase Gallery, West Hartford, CT (catalogue with essay by Kari Adelaide)
2012 Slate House, Acumen Project Space, Queens, NY
TWO AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Knowing When: Ashley Garrett, Evan Halter, and Charlie Goering, Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY
2018 Wild World: Ashley Garrett, Catherine Howe and Lily Prince, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
2017 Six Depot, two-person show with Brian Wood, West Stockbridge, MA
2017 Whorl, two-person with Zach Seeger, SRO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
2017 Ribbons and Eyes, two-person with Zach Seeger, Memorial Hall Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Upstate Art Weekend, East Chatham, NY (upcoming summer 2024)
La Banda, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
2023
UNTITLED Art Fair, SEPTEMBER Gallery - Ashley Garrett, Huê Thi Hoffmaster and Liz Collins, Miami Beach, FL
Light into Night, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
Library, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Glenn Goldberg
A Donkade, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2022
Sacred Pause, Sacred Fertilizer, Louise Nevelson Chapel, St Peter’s Church, NYC
GARDEN, Ladies Room, Los Angeles, CA
Upstate Art Weekend, East Chatham, NY (Open studios)
Mountain High, Valley Low, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Largeness Writ Small, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, NY
Island Life, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts, Long Beach, NJ
Shimmer, Berkshire Botanical Garden Leonhardt Gallery, Stockbridge, MA, curated by Sue Muskat & Phil Knoll
Forest Bathing, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Social Photography X, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2021
Transformations, Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, NY
SPRING/BREAK Art Show with Gold / Scopophilia Gallery, New York, NY
Chromatic Vigils/Low Tides, Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY, curated by The Sphinx Northeast (Kari Adelaide & Max Razdow)
BAM Art Auction, New York, NY
The Vision of Care, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, NY, curated by Robert R. Shane
GARDEN, Ladies’ Room, Los Angeles, CA
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2020
Social Photography VIII, Carriage Trade, New York
Small Works, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Got it For Cheap, The Hole, New York, NY
2019
The Edge Effect, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, selected by Akili Tommasino
Yellow, SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY
Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
The Lovely Wild, Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, New York, NY
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Coping, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
2018
Cultivate Your Own Garden, The Painting Center, New York, NY (catalogue)
True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Materiality, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Holiday Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Private Practice, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Say A Little Prayer for U.S., Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
True Believers, Michael David Studio @ 56 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY
Safe Space, Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, New York, NY
Social Photography V, Carriage Trade, New York
Hygge, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
High Rock Tower, Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NY
Show Me Yours, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Warmth of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2016
SIX, Regina Rex, New York, NY
The Moon and Serpent, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
Our Crazy Life, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
Sibling Rivalries, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze, 1285 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY (catalogue)
Bushwick Tales, Venus Knitting Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Image is Everything, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Photisms, Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA, Los Angeles, CA
Befana's Secret Booty, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
Improvised Showboat #5, New York, NY, curated by Zachary Keeting & Loren Britton
Paintings in Trees, The People’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY
Family Ties, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Tread, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Underdonk & Friends, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Image Makers, Novella Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Avital Burg and Eleanor Ray
Home Turf, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Inaugural show, Regina Rex, New York, NY
Summer Invitational, Life On Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
The Whitney Houston Biennial, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
Place Made Visible, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Beasts and Bodies, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Do Not Disturb, Elgin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Abstraction and Figuration, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Marty's Cool Biennial, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY
Inner Space, Flushing Ave Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Individuality/Diversity, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jeanne Siegel
National Juried Show, Bowery Gallery, NY, curated by Jed Perl
The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, Apex Art, New York, NY
2006
Scale, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Wood, Water, War, Starpin Gallery, Shelton, CT
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Facing Newark, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
Celebrating Moravian Women, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Szantyr, Bob and Fay Sanders. “Art Fairs: Selected Paintings from Spring/Break Art Show 2021,” Two Coats of Paint, September 12, 2021
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SALT, (cover), quarterly poetry magazine edited by Billie Chernicoff, April 2021
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AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
Martha Boschen Porter Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
Escola Superior de Disseny i Art (Llotja), Barcelona, Spain, summer painting residency
Chairman's Merit Award, School of Visual Arts
Resource Award, School of Visual Arts
Celebrating Moravian Women Painting Prize
Trustee Grant, Moravian College
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Heritage Center Museum, Bangor, PA
PANELS & VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2022 Artist talk for Knowing When, moderated by Kelcy Chase Folsom,
Saturday, November 26th, Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY
2022 Panel discussion for Sacred Pause, Sacred Fertilizer, moderated by Marly Hammer and Lisa Wirth,
Wednesday, October 19th, Louise Nevelson Chapel, Saint Peter’s Church, NYC
2022 Artist Talk, Less Than Half women artists salon, moderated by Hall W. Rockefeller, August 15th on Zoom
2022 Panel discussion for Forest Bathing, Byrdcliffe Forum, moderated by Sara Lynn Henry
Thursday, January 20th, 2022 on Zoom
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, California State University Long Beach, studio walkthrough and lecture in NYC
2021 Panel discussion with curator/critic Robert R. Shane, Ashley Garrett, Hana Van der Kolk and Rebecca Tolley
The Vision of Care exhibition, Woodstock Artists Assoc. and Museum, NY, April 21, 2021
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, California State University Long Beach (on Zoom during Covid-19)
2017 Moderator for artist talk with Alex Sewell and David Totah
Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY, May 11, 2017
2016 Panel discussion with Ashley Garrett, Michael John Kelly, Max Presneill, C Michael Norton
Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, January 16, 2016
WRITING
2016 "Abstracting Mind," Abstract, Abstraction and So Forth, ed. Saul Ostrow, Critical Practices Inc, 2016
2015 ”Interview with Brenda Goodman,” Ashley Garrett, Figure/Ground, March 2015
”Katherine Bernhardt Interview,” Ashley Garrett, Whitehot Magazine, Jan 2015
2014 ”A Conversation with Ann Craven,” Ashley Garrett, Figure/Ground, Sept 2014
”Ashley Garrett with Lisa Sanditz,” Ashley Garrett, Painting is Dead, Nov 2014
”A Conversation with Joanne Greenbaum,” Figure/Ground, May 2014
”A Conversation with Judith Linhares,” Figure/Ground, Jan 2014
”A Conversation with Lori Ellison,” Figure/Ground, Jan 2014
2013 ”A Conversation with Molissa Fenley,” Figure/Ground, Oct 2013
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014-2018 Underdonk Gallery member and curator
2017 Portals, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY, August 4 - Sept 10, 2017, curated with Anna Ortiz
Nightjar, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY, May 12 - June 18, 2017
2016 Sibling Rivalries, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, January 16 - March 12, 2016
2015 PAUL KLEE, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY, October 10 - November 1, 2015, curated with JJ Manford
Photisms, TSA LA, Los Angeles, CA, October 17 - November 7, 2015