Ashley Zangle
December 8, 2011
What is your full name? Any nick names?
Ashley Zangle
What is your current occupation(s)?
Decorative painter/ muralist/ artist assistant
Where do you currently live?
Brooklyn, NY
What is your favorite medium/media to work in at the moment?
Soap
What is the your current subject matter and content of work?
The New Age, pseudoscience.
What is the relationship between the content of your work and the materials you use?
I’ve been using really specific materials so the content and the form of the work is pretty much dictated by the stuff it’s made of.
Who is your favorite artist(s)?
Agnes Martin, Tacita Dean, Sterling Ruby, Jean Arp,
What is your favorite food / drink?
Oysters, red beer
What are you listening to right now?
Janet Jackson
How do you see yourself in 40 years?
in the country
What is your most treasured possession?
Bill Clinton (my turtle)
What gadget / object could you not live without?
right now, christmas lights
How would you describe your style, aka uniform?
I recently started wearing pants
What is your favorite book?
The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals, Lolita
song?
Sweet Thing -Van Morrison
movie?
Badlands
magazine?
New Yorker
blog?
Eh
clothing designer?
savers?
What was your first screen name or email address?
0osugaro0o0
What is your favorite color?
Green
What is your favorite shape?
Prism
Would you rather explore space or the deep sea?
Space
ASHLEY ZANGLE
Born in Babylon, New York in 1985 Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
2008 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting
AWARDS
2008 The Florence Lief Award Recipient, Painting Department, RISD, Providence, RI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 030101, Bartholomew Editions, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Public Records, Museum of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
Christmas Event, Living Room Gallery, New York, NY
FamJam, ULTRA Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan 2009 Milk and Honey, The Living Room Gallery, New York, NY
Tender is the Night, Memorial Gallery, Providence, RI 2008 A Varied Terrain, Geilman Gallery, Providence, RI
Senior Painting Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Winter and Spring Shows, Treehouse Gallery, Providence, RI 2007 The Natural, Ewing Gallery, Providence, RI
Fang Island, Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI 2006 Four Artists, D. Cat Gallery, Providence, RI
Painting Department Annual Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2008 Tender is the Night, Memorial Gallery, Providence, RI 2006 Four Artists, D. Cat Gallery, Providence, RI
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Barth, Sean. “Ashley Zangle” ABC|Journal, Winter Issue, 34-45
