Black Historical past Month 2024 has the theme of African Individuals and the Arts. Black artist Ashley January makes use of her artwork to deliver consideration to the black maternal disparity disaster in our nation.
“I deal with the Black maternal mortality and morbidity disaster in America via portray and multimedia. Influenced
by my very own traumatic being pregnant and survival, the imagery facilities on the experiences of Black moms, birthing individuals, and youngsters who’ve suffered antagonistic beginning outcomes however problem the institutional modes find options. Confronting themes via quiet, usually heavy motifs, the creative environments articulate the imposed well being results disproportionately skilled. All familial views are thought-about after a tangential beginning trauma survival. Persevering with the delicately layered dialog surrounding Black maternal well being, the pictures function a world name to motion for extra consciousness, analysis, and the eradication of pointless maternal and toddler deaths.”
Ashley January (b.Illinois, 1987) creates up to date work knowledgeable by her maternal expertise. Exploring themes of preeclampsia, untimely beginning, and beginning trauma, her latest physique of labor continues to deal with the Black maternal mortality and morbidity disaster in America. Ashley turned the primary recipient of the Ladies’s Caucus for Artwork, 2022 Rising Artist Award, and was chosen as a finalist for the 2022 Artadia Chicago Award.
In January 2023, Ashley had the second installment of her solo exhibition, Human | Mom |Black, at Western Illinois College. Most not too long ago, her works had been featured within the New York group present, Fruits of Labor: Reframing Motherhood and Artmaking at Apex Artwork. She was invited to take part within the Unit London (Voices) on-line group exhibition Naissance/Re-Naissance. She was additionally included within the London Artwork Honest Platform curation via Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Moreover, Tufts College College of Medication’s Heart for Black Maternal Well being and Reproductive Justice, acquired work from her collection. Her works have been exhibited in quite a few venues together with, The Younger Masters Autumn Exhibition in London, UK; the South Facet Neighborhood Artwork Heart, Chicago, IL; Mana Up to date, Chicago, IL; SoLA Up to date, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Science and Trade, Chicago, IL; Viridian Artists Inc, New York, NY; Laguna Artwork Museum, Laguna Seashore, CA; Pacific Artwork Basis, Newport Seashore, CA; and the Irvine Nice Arts Heart, Irvine, CA.
Not too long ago, she was featured within the January 2023 difficulty of Luxe Interiors+ Design Chicago journal. Her work have additionally been featured within the tv collection, Kings of Napa, on OWN. In 2018, she was chosen as a first-place award winner on the WomanMade Gallery’s Midwest Open in Chicago. In 2017, Ashley gained the Beverly Financial institution Better of Present Award on the Beverly Arts Heart’s juried competitors. When requested about her sentiments in the direction of Ashley’s work and follow, Dr. Pleasure West, MD, Obstetrician/Gynecologist at Roseland Neighborhood Hospital in Chicago, mentioned, “It’s becoming that your work, now put in
at Roseland Hospital, will attain the ladies most impacted by beginning trauma; the underserved, the systematically excluded, the forgotten. They are going to be uplifted just by seeing themselves in your lovely artwork. I’m sure of this. Thanks for creating and sharing all elements of Human | Mom | Black. “Ashley will showcase work with Cynthia Corbett Gallery from her new collection, Environments of a Heavy Pleasure, at EXPO Chicago in April (2024).Her works are at present featured within the group present, Neighbors, South Shore Arts(2024), curated by Dorman + Torluemke from January 19-March 16.Ashley earned her MFA in Portray from the Laguna Faculty of Artwork and Design, Laguna Seashore, CA in 2017 and her BS in Communication with an Promoting focus and Minor in Studio Artwork from Bradley College, Peoria, IL in 2009. She lives in Chicago together with her household whereas working from dwelling and her studio at Mana Up to date.
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