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Aspen Mays (born 1980) is an American artist.[1]

Early life and education

Aspen Mays was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. Mays received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1]

She also studied photography in Cape Town, South Africa while volunteering in a clinic for bead working artisans living with HIV.[2]

Career

Mays's solo exhibitions include Every leaf on a tree at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;[3] From the Offices of Scientists at the Hyde Park Art Center,[4] Chicago; Concentrate and Ask Again at Golden Gallery,[5] Chicago. Mays was a 2009–2010 Fulbright Fellow in Santiago, Chile, where she worked with astronomers who are using the world's most advanced telescopes to look at the sky.[6]

During her time at the observatory, she was given access to the institutional archive of rejected prints, negatives, and other ephemera.[7] This resulted in her body of work, "Sun Ruins," which functions as an umbrella for two distinct yet related bodies of work.[7] In 2006, she was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for study in Cape Town, South Africa.[7] More recently, honors include a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Chile, Santiago. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.[7]

The Atlanta-based Art Papers describes her work as standing "in deft opposition to the technology we have come to rely on for answers, putting faith not in complex databases and rapidly evolving technology, but rather in the ability of everyday objects and materials to spark our imagination."[8] In doing so, she "re-imagines the world around us, finding new possibilities in the commonplace."[9]

Mays is currently an associate professor in Graduate Fine Arts and Undergraduate Photography at California College of the Arts[10]

Solo exhibitions

Publications

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "CONTINUUM: ASPEN MAYS + DIONNE LEE". Silver Eye. Archived from the original on 2020-03-02. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  2. ^ https://www.aspenmays.com. ((cite web)): Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work: Aspen Mays". MCA. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  4. ^ "Aspen Mays: From the Offices of Scientists – Hyde Park Art Center". Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  5. ^ "Concentrate and Ask Again". 23 September 2009. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  6. ^ "Aspen Mays". Light Work. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  7. ^ a b c d "Review Santa Fe: Aspen Mays". LENSCRATCH. 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  8. ^ Eler, Alicia (September 2009). "Aspen Mays" (PDF). Art Papers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-07.
  9. ^ Yood, James (November 2009). "Aspen Mays" (PDF). Artforum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-07.
  10. ^ "CCA Faculty Page". Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  11. ^ "Aspen Mays". Higher Pictures. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  12. ^ "Aspen Mays, Newspaper Rock". Lightwork. Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  13. ^ "Aspen Mays". COR&P. Archived from the original on 2013-10-26. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  14. ^ "UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work:Aspen Mays". MCA Chicago. Archived from the original on 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

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