Eve Aschheim, Lewis Center for the Arts (original) (raw)

Eve Aschheim is an abstract painter and draftsperson who seeks to create dynamic abstract structures that exist between categories of thought. Her interests do not fall under the categories of image, object or design. She is after something more elusive and less stable—implied motion, states in the midst of change, a fictive reality that exists between multiple visual constructions. Interests in geometry, the urban environment, drawing, light, and the creation and alteration of pictorial space inform her work.

Aschheim exhibits internationally, with solo exhibitions at ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, NY, (catalog with contributions by Susan Stewart and Steven Holl); the New York Studio School; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College; the Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and galleries in New York City, Berlin, and Malmö, Sweden. Her work has been included in group exhibitions, including “Lines and Spaces”, Hartford Art School, CT; “About Painting” and “Twice Drawn”, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the traveling exhibitions “Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society”, and “Drawing is Another Kind of Language” which originated at the Harvard University Art Museums and traveled to museums in the U.S. and Europe. Aschheim’s works of art are held in many museum collections, with pieces most recently acquired by The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass, Amherst; and Kupferstichkabinett, Nationalgalerie, Berlin. She has received grants from organizations including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Aschheim, who received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis, began teaching at Princeton as a Lecturer in 1991. From 2004-07 she served as director of the program. Aschheim was elected member of the National Academy of Art in 2017. Aschheim’s work is included in the textbooks Drawing, Structure and Vision (Prentice Hall, 2008); and Drawing, A Contemporary Approach, 6th Ed. (Thompson Wadsworth, 2008). Aschheim’s interviews with colleagues Dawn Clements, John O’Connor and Seton Smith have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail. Episodes with Wayne Thiebaud, (Black Square Editions, 2014, dist. D.A.P.) is a series of interviews with the artist conducted by Aschheim and Chris Daubert. Aschheim lives in New York City, where she was born.