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ASC (they/them) is a queer artist, educator, and herbalist working across object-making traditions to propose hybrid alternatives to persisting hegemonic binaries, including sick vs. pleasure, body vs. object, and synthetic vs. organic. Recent forms in various tactile media imagine an abstract Neuroqueer lexicon while reflecting their roots in southern DIY craft. Intersections of ecology, humor, intimacy, strategies of emergence, and materialities of so-called “invisible” disability are intrinsic to their work. ASC has been an artist-in-residence with Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, VisArts Richmond, Chicago Artists Coalition, Vermont Studio Center, and Annmarie Arts. With roots in Appalachia’s Central Plateau and Blue Ridge, ASC holds an MFA from the University of Chicago, and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. They are a member of Southerners On New Ground.

A previous recipient of the VCUarts Gerald Donato Award in Painting and a recent VCU Faculty Creative Research Grant, ASC represented Chicago at the South Bend Museum of Art’s Biennial 31, and has exhibited solo projects with Monaco Gallery (St. Louis, MO), Hume Gallery (Chicago, IL), and Alma’s Gallery (Richmond, VA). Their installation Aerial Parts was commissioned by Buddy Chicago for the Chicago Cultural Center in 2021.
Group exhibition sites include Snehta Gallery (Greece); Leiminspace (CA); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VA); Inferno NYC, Cinemarosa GALERIA (New York); Aurora Public Art Commission, Siblings Gallery, Chicago Artists Coalition, The Overlook Place, Condo Association, The Submission, Public Access, Arts + Public Life Arts Incubator, Hyde Park Art Center, LVL3 Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Logan Center for the Arts (IL); Kinsey Institute, South Bend Museum of Art (IN); John Fonda Gallery, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University, Gallery CA, and Maryland Federation of Art (MD).

ASC has worked with cultural institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hyde Park Arts Center, The Arts of Life, Maryland Institute College of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Land Acknowledgment: Studio ASC (along with institutions mentioned above) operates on lands whose stewardship was stolen from Indigenous nations and peoples. A relevant resource is native-land.ca.