Ashley James

My work begins with a human movement that has caught my eye during the day—a gesture or stumble or maneuver—and produced an emotional or psychological resonance. I want to remember these moments, or try to resolve them. The sculptures grow out of necessary opposites: as still signs of movement they are complete but elastic, abstracted but figured, pleasant but strange. From day to day, depending on what a viewer brings to it, the same movement may shift—from languid to apprehensive to purposeful to alert. The sculptures are open objects, bypassing language to in a more instinctive form of relation.

State

NY