Visual Art – Raleigh
Ashley Swindoll is a conceptual visual artist based in Hillsborough, NC, whose work uses mixed media to create art pieces that provoke her audience to reflect on emotional and mental wellness. Originally from Oregon, she attended Oregon State University for sculpture, painting and art history and has been showing her work Internationally for 14 years. Her artistic process combines digging into the emotional landscape that life experiences offer. Through materials like paint, metal, encaustic wax, found objects and canvas, she has been able to channel creativity in a way that provides powerful healing and aesthetically pleasing bodies of work. Her most recent project is a collaboration with puppeteer Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins to uses an encaustic wax and musical instruments to create a massive sculpture installation that will suspend between two buildings in downtown Durham and that will bring awareness to the mental illnesses so many of us experience in one way or another. As a conceptual artist, she finds peace in portraying the ugly as beautiful and the unusual perplexing.