Psyche
This body of work is an offering of aliveness, made in the midst of feeling. -Ashley Garrett
We are thrilled to present Psyche, Ashley Garrett’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Saturday, August 16, 2025. Born from two years of intensive time in her upstate studio and embodied immersion in nature, this new work represents both an expansion and deepening of the artist’s approach. Psyche showcases Garrett’s largest paintings yet, and in its entirety, forms her most robust show to date.
Standing before one of Garrett’s compositions with full receptivity is an experience of aliveness. Skipping, darting, rounding and swirling, her brushwork is highly active and intuitive. Her chromatic range is anything but neutral. Most prominent are singing passages of bright yellows and greens. Garrett’s range of bursting pinks are the structuring hue of a few notable works. Along with earthtones, she skillfully integrates licks and dashes of blue, orange, and purple. Channeling the movement of nature, Garrett’s paintings evoke vibratic sensations.
When Garrett paints, she inhabits a feeling and finds its form. Her interior states are guided by the practice of opening all senses and immersing herself within the fullness of nature. Recently, Garrett has been inviting companions to join her, creating new spaces of exchange. This communion happens in real time, bifurcating her once solo experience, and energetically carrying into her compositions.
In this way, the show also becomes a kind of shared path: paintings as sites of encounter, as open terrain where our inner worlds might overlap.
Garrett’s paintings don’t coalesce into definitions of form or place. They never land but lift, appearing suspended in transition and time. She achieves this through deft facility and attentiveness to her own humanity and interconnectivity. Psyche, one of her invocations, is the embodiment of mortality and spirit. With aliveness comes the awareness that everything changes, and if there is one constant in Ashley’s work, it’s movement.
These paintings engage with Psyche’s journey not only as myth but as method: a movement toward the unseen, a surrender to transformation.
The enormity of scale is an invitation to have our visual fields brim. We can imagine the artist herself fully engulfed, first with a flat expanse of white, and then with the physical and energetic charge of action. When Garrett’s paintings eventually arrive at finished, they conclude in states of animation.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a book published with Space Sisters Press, including an essay by Gilles Heno-Coe in response to Ashley’s new body of work.
We are thrilled to present Psyche, Ashley Garrett’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Saturday, August 16, 2025. Born from two years of intensive time in her upstate studio and embodied immersion in nature, this new work represents both an expansion and deepening of the artist’s approach. Psyche showcases Garrett’s largest paintings yet, and in its entirety, forms her most robust show to date.
Standing before one of Garrett’s compositions with full receptivity is an experience of aliveness. Skipping, darting, rounding and swirling, her brushwork is highly active and intuitive. Her chromatic range is anything but neutral. Most prominent are singing passages of bright yellows and greens. Garrett’s range of bursting pinks are the structuring hue of a few notable works. Along with earthtones, she skillfully integrates licks and dashes of blue, orange, and purple. Channeling the movement of nature, Garrett’s paintings evoke vibratic sensations.
When Garrett paints, she inhabits a feeling and finds its form. Her interior states are guided by the practice of opening all senses and immersing herself within the fullness of nature. Recently, Garrett has been inviting companions to join her, creating new spaces of exchange. This communion happens in real time, bifurcating her once solo experience, and energetically carrying into her compositions.
In this way, the show also becomes a kind of shared path: paintings as sites of encounter, as open terrain where our inner worlds might overlap.
Garrett’s paintings don’t coalesce into definitions of form or place. They never land but lift, appearing suspended in transition and time. She achieves this through deft facility and attentiveness to her own humanity and interconnectivity. Psyche, one of her invocations, is the embodiment of mortality and spirit. With aliveness comes the awareness that everything changes, and if there is one constant in Ashley’s work, it’s movement.
These paintings engage with Psyche’s journey not only as myth but as method: a movement toward the unseen, a surrender to transformation.
The enormity of scale is an invitation to have our visual fields brim. We can imagine the artist herself fully engulfed, first with a flat expanse of white, and then with the physical and energetic charge of action. When Garrett’s paintings eventually arrive at finished, they conclude in states of animation.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a book published with Space Sisters Press, including an essay by Gilles Heno-Coe in response to Ashley’s new body of work.
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