Ashley Lyon Artist Talk
Ashley Lyon will give an artist lecture in conjunction with her exhibition, Super Real, currently on view at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum. The lecture will take place on October 26 at 4:30pm in Nevins Theater. Super Real presents a collection of recent artworks, ranging from the colossal to intimate, by sculptor Ashley Lyon. Through scale, fragmentation, and touch, Lyon translates figures and objects into reflections of lived experience.Lyon's Exhibition will be on view through December 30, 2023
Ashley Lyon received an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington in 2006. Lyon has been awarded residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the European Ceramic WorkCentre and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Craft/Sculpture from The New York Foundation for the Arts and an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant recipient (2011 and 2014). She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at New Jersey City University and lives in Newburgh, NY.