ASHLEY MINTZ
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Nashville, TN | Painting, Mixed Media, Printmaking
Bio:
Ashley Mintz is a visual artist residing and creating in Nashville, Tennessee. Originally from Las Cruces, New Mexico, Mintz moved to Nashville to pursue songwriting. Shortly after moving, she became interested in the visual arts and changed her focus to learning how to paint while incorporating creative writing into her art.
Mintz has had her original art used in the background of films and in solo and group exhibitions at places such as The Nashville International Airport (BNA), Vanderbilt Divinity School (Nashville, TN), The Customs House Museum (Clarksville, TN), Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN) and the Clemson Area African American Museum (Clemson, SC), among other places. She also has works in several library collections including a painting in the Metro Arts Lending Library collection in Nashville, TN and a collaborative book with her mother that she illustrated in three different libraries in their Special Collections.
Mintz currently attends Tennessee State University where she is pursuing her Bachelor of Science degree in Studio Art. She uses art and writing as a way to inspire and encourage others in healing and growing, the same way art has done for her.
Statement:
I am a visual artist working mainly in painting, collage and book art. Through my art, I often examine themes such as identity, race, femininity and spirituality and I try to find ways that non-book art can be created and displayed in a way that represents storytelling and can still be considered a book.
With my current work, I am mixing different mediums and layers of materials in order to portray complexity and the intricacies that are unavoidable within the human experience. Some color choices are intentional while most times, they are intuitive.
I am also examining the differences in how maternal great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, and daughters have experienced life at different times as women of color, and how generational trauma is unconsciously passed down. Creating art has been my way of confronting the remnants of unresolved family trauma in an attempt to create new narratives.