Ashley Contreras Natural Technologies 2009 – Student Project Series 4
University Galleries in cooperation with University Advancement and the Department of Art & Art History presents Ashley Contreras Natural Technologies 2009 – Student Project Series 4
Ashley Contreras is a studio art major, presently working on her senior project. During an advanced painting class last spring, she used photography as a catalyst to create a set of paintings.
Using representational and abstract painting techniques, images of power lines and telephone poles are silhouetted against deep blue-violet color fields. This figure ground relationship addresses the intersection of civilization and nature. Quiet and powerful, an endless horizon stretches forever.
Intimately scaled, Contreras’ acrylic on wood panels present views with a keen design sense. In Natural Technologies horizontal cables that carry information and vertical poles that map out the landscape are transformed into irregular grids. Her spatial compositions slice and divide the picture, creating rhythm and harmony in the twilit sky.
The University Galleries student project series focuses on a single body of work by an advanced student. Contreras is the fourth studio art major to be featured. Student projects are temporary, site-specific exhibitions on the University of La Verne main campus. Natural Technologies 2009 is currently on view in the University Advancement lobby.
University Galleries – Student Project Series 4
University Advancement Lobby
1950 Third Street, La Verne, California 91750
(909) 593-3511 extension 4763
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