Tiffany Dow

Tiffany Dow  has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from California College of the Arts. These pieces are charcoal on paper, and showed at the Foley Gallery in New York in 2008. Her work explores the relationship between forms in nature and how we reconstruct them visually.

Cal Lane

Cal Lane is an artist from Halifax Nova Scotia. She has a MFA from SUNY Purchase, and works with a plasma steel cutter. Her work is so beautiful - I suggest reading her artist's statement, I feel it has some parallels with mine. http://www.callane.com/index.php?id=9

Creative Ways to Exist as Artists

After reading this section, I feel that I can relate to each artist in some way. For Reverend Howard Finster, I can relate to how after he finishes a painting, he paints other things that are in sight, which often ends up being a can or a rag. I like how he is extending his work onto his tools, that is really charming and gives these objects that have a functional use an aesthetic appeal, connecting the process to the product.  I found the Guerrilla Girls to be motivational as they point out discrimination. I like the social context of their pieces. Clark Whittington's Art*O*Mat seems like a bunch of fun! I love that he is up-cycling cigarette machines to dispense art! I went to the website, and found that at the Mercury Design Studio http://www.mercurydesignstudio.com/index.html they have one, and after looking at their website, I must go there! J.S.G. Boggs work is fantastic - I love that he goes and pays and that it actually works out! I wish he would come into my work - I'd love to make that trade! The Taxicab Gallery probably wouldn't be an ideal location for my work, but I do think it is interesting and I'd much rather take that cap than something else! I have seen Keith Haring's work, and I can relate to how he feels he cannot stop...making art is such a rewarding experience! I really like that he would schedule time to create murals with children wherever he was making work. As for Christo and Jeanne-Claude, I love the ephemeral aspect of their work, and I can imagine it would be nearly overwhelming to be in the presence of one of these pieces!

Narrative Bio

Ashley Dennington was born on April 8, 1989. Her interest in art, specifically ceramics, was evident before her elementary school years. She has always known that she is most interested in becoming an artist. In high school, she had her ceramics place in VASE. She currently is pursuing an undergraduate degree in art with an emphasis on ceramics from St. Edward's.

Artist Statement

Interested in traditionally feminine artifacts such as doilies and lace, my current creative research includes both drawings and clay forms. Using hand-woven and crocheted textiles, I am creating work that investigates line and the properties of light. These works also represent delicacy, femininity, and intimacy.

I have been utilizing light and lace in my clay works. I crochet the lace, and then through slip casting, create three-dimensional clay forms. In both the drawings and the clay objects, texture is very important to me, creating a balance through rhythm and harmony.

Being a tomboy for the majority of my life, I am looking to portray my own inner peace and acceptance with my femininity through all of the aspects of my work.   Having grown up feeling a disconnection towards my womanhood I was eventually drawn to these objects as I feel they represent both the tough and tender aspects of my personality.

Five Year Plan

My Five Year Plan - 



2011 - Create artist's packet, website,and email list. Take slides of work. Make work for senior show. Experiment. Make a dish set.

2012 - Make and complete work for Senior show - 13.04.2011. Promote senior show around town by handing out postcards and putting up flyers. Put a postcard in every st eds employee's mailbox, and around campus in each building. Graduate with a bachelors in art and a teaching certificate. Get land and a temporary home and studio space. Plant a vegetable garden. Look for teaching job. Continue creative research and practice.

2013 -  Continue to develop body of work to use to apply for graduate school. Start visiting graduate schools to see which ones are possibilities. Look for places to display work and for group shows and exhibitions. Maybe set up an art show. If I have enough work, I would like to apply to clay fest! Collect materials to build earth bag home, and begin to build. Tend vegetable garden, get chickens and goats. I will also be searching for a teaching job if I do not already have one, while working as a private art instructor and tutor.

2014 - Continue to make artwork. participate in clay fest. Look for shows and exhibitions. Have a well established vegetable garden, hens producing eggs, and goats producing milk. If home is not finished being built, then finish building home. Caleb and I may try to have a baby as well, and if we do then I may go to online graduate school. I would like to have a permanent studio space built by this time as well.I may be teaching during this time as well, if I have a job then maybe Caleb and I will have our wedding because I will have insurance. Otherwise, we will wait until we're booted off our parents'!


2015 - Look for solo art shows. Attend graduate school. If we have a baby, it will probably be an online one.