Eve Aschheim bio

eve aschheim

Born in New York City, 1958
Lives and works in New York City
Studied at University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1983) and University of California, Davis (M.F.A., 1987)

Artist's Statement:
In an ocean or a river, the surface undulates above and below an imaginary plane, which delimits the water's volume. Every wave or ripple both gains and loses energy, with potential energy at the wave's top, and kinetic energy at the bottom. A record of this movement would recreate the virtual volume of the water. Such a record would include small and large periods and amplitudes of waves (lines) building and canceling to create undulations, choppiness, turbulence, and irregularity. I try to create a virtual parallel of the constantly changing structure, using large and small gestures, different speeds of lines, light and reflected light, and changing directionalities. My work proposes a correlation between the surface tension of the water and the tension between the picture plane and deep space. Rather than creating a photographic picture of water, I am interested in conveying both the virtual existence and physical presence of moving water as it changes over time.

Selected Recent Exhibitions
2000	Contemporary American Drawings from the Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Collection, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Texas
	Deep Field Painting, Leubsforf Gallery, Hunter College, New York
	Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Lund, Sweden
1999	Gallerie Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin
	The Possibilities of the Line, Landesgalerie Oberosterreich, Linz, Austria
	New Voices, University of California, San Diego
	Cologne Art Fair, Galerie Benden and Klimczak
	Drawing Show, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
	Twelve Attitudes, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, California
	Women and Geometric Abstraction, Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn
1998	Art on Paper 1998
	Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
	Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	A Slice of Apple, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
	Open Salvo, White Box, New York City
	Original Scale, Apex Art, New York City
1997	Drawing is another kind of language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
1996	New York Painting - Formal Abstraction, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
	American Abstract Artists, Keane College, New Jersey, and Westbeth Gallery, New York

Selected Awards
1997	The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award
1991	New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Drawing
1990	The Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1989	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Works on Paper

Selected Public Collections

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Museo Medardo Rosso, Italy

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque