The Telescope Trapeze: Artist's Statement

Farmgirls and Chickens

An acrobat. A tight rope walker. Someone who has a way with the elephants. We were gathered up as collectibles, as convenience, as a matter of heredity. Walking on high arches and strapped into all that color. Power. Lust. Sticky finger clap and the spotlight glare. A vendor stocks his cart.

This is when we tell our secrets if you are looking, you know. When we are hidden enough to feel at home. Beneath the blush and orchestrated electric fervor. Lips smudged with a lover’s kiss. The cheekbones of our remembered pasts. Wordless story irises and the cut of our fearful and immeasurable truths.

Powder hands sweep. Voices catch fire. This is the telescope trapeze.

The Telescope Trapeze: Ashley's Artshow

The Fox Confessor, oil on paper

Ashley Brown
The Telescope Trapeze
March 9-April 5 2010
@
Modesto
Ste 138B, Page Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801-2393
(in the Grove Arcade)

Mon-Thu, Sun 11:30-9pm
Fri-Sat 11:30-10pm

Information: ashleyelizabethbrown@gmail.com or 615.944.5400
Artist's Website: www.ashleyelizabeth.org

and some other sneak previews...

The Executioner, oil on paper

The Bird Welder, oil on paper

I am a Visitor Here, I am Not Permanent, oil on canvas