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Deborah Salac-Ashforth received a Master of
Fine Arts degree from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
She is a member of the
Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Roster and lives in Arizona. She has exhibited in
numerous solo and group shows worldwide and has been the recipient of a number of
awards and scholarships. Salac-Ashforth works primarily with cloth and
clothing. Her work explores the use of clothing as a site of negotiation
between the public and private self, as a signifier of ascribed and
claimed identities. Although she is often distracted.
Kelly Barrett describes her work as
"an act of
excavation, in search of a self, long ago buried and bound in a tightly
wound cocoon of foreign ideals and expectations."
"The
creative process is the tool I use to unravel the fibers and filaments and
expose the original fabric of my spirit. I incorporate a variety of
textures, objects, and imagery that portray an unconscious and intuitive
world encased in layers of encaustic paint medium on wood panels. As a
mixed media artist, I am not wed to any one medium or technique, but
instead use a wide array to communicate. I’m attracted to very tactile
materials such as plaster, wax, organic elements and industrial objects. I
combine these to create a narrative using techniques from various
disciplines including photography, painting, digital media, sculpture, and
performance art," she said.
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the
b royalty
bright core of failure ©2003
3’
x 4’ oil and collage on canvas
B. Royalty has gained national recognition
through her award-winning commissioned portraits of dogs, capturing the
personalities of a number of our most beloved and colorful breeds with
extraordinary sensitivity. Besides dogs, Royalty also paints cats, birds
and elephants, as well as human characters, both children and adults, in a
variety of domestic and allegorical situations. Royalty
is a resident of Tempe and has been
painting and expressing herself through art for more than 15
years. She is a graduate of the Arizona State University School of Art and the
recipient of many national and regional fine art and design awards. Her
paintings have been exhibited in galleries across the United States and
are included in numerous private and corporate collections.
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The "Post Office Exhibition" is
a joint effort among Arizona artists, the city of Tempe Cultural Services
Division, the Downtown Tempe Community, Inc., and the U.S. Postal Service.
Artwork is featured in the front windows of the U.S. Post
Office at 500 S. Mill Ave. (5th Street and Mill Avenue) in downtown
Tempe. |
