Hello, and welcome to Studio Sessions, this time with guest Ashley Billingsley.
Ashley earned her BFA from the University of Minnesota, and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In her most recent series of work, she has focused on a scene from a Kurosawa film and begun creating a series of realistic, large scale graphite drawings of the imagery. While similar to her previous work which often featured captured moments from her life, she takes a step outside of herself by borrowing the imagery from another source in this series and dedicating a large amount of time to meditating on just one short moment in the film of two fires burning in the woods.
Listen as Ashley explains the draw she feels to this scene, and also discusses some of her past works.
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- Fire in the Woods II by Ashley Billingsley. Image courtesy of the artist
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- Fire in the Woods IV by Ashley Billingsley. Image courtesy of the artist
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- Claw-Foot Tub by Ashley Billingsley. Image courtesy of the artist
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- Girls Hotel by Ashley Billingsley. Image courtesy of the artist
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- Museum of Branches II by Ashley Billingsley. Image courtesy of the artist
