Bio
Ashley Rabanal is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, although she spent much of her childhood and teen years living in both South Africa and Kenya. In 2016, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Anderson University in South Carolina, and in 2020 she received her MFA in Visual Arts from Clemson University. She is both a 2017 Brandon Fellowship recipient from the Greenville Center for Creative Arts and a 2019 grant recipient from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Currently, she teaches with the University of South Carolina.
Statement
Interactions between the body and the mundane fuel my creative inquiry.
Newer work considers how chronic pain creates an altered sensory experience and abruptly changes daily interactions between the body and domestic objects and artifacts.
In older work, I unmake the home through visual decisions in order to challenge our idealized notions of how the home should feel. Although the depicted spaces are grounded in observable reality, they are not entirely logical, and they operate as psychological environments that often enter the realm of the uncanny or melancholic.
