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ASPEN MAYS

Einstein Rainbow 1, 2009
From: Every Book about Albert Einstein available through the Illinois Collegiate Inter-Library Loan Service

Printed on 11x14in Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper
Uneditioned and unsigned
Certificate of Authenticity

About the Artist:

Aspen Mays was raised in Charleston, SC. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 and a BA in Anthropology and Spanish from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2004. Mays joined the faculty at the California College of the Arts in 2015, and she is an Associate Professor in Graduate Fine Arts and Undergraduate Photography. In her photographic work, Mays has been called a “Postmodern mystic.” Her work challenges the expectation of photography as a documentary and categorical medium, and her research explores the visualization of knowledge in both visual art and observational sciences. Her solo exhibitions include Tengallon Sunflower and California Dreaming at Higher Pictures in New York; Every leaf on a tree at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Newspaper Rock at Light Work in Syracuse, New York; and Ships that Pass in the Night at the Center for Ongoing Projects and Research (COR&P) in Columbus, OH. She was included in the national survey of Contemporary Art in the United States, State of the Art, at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her work has been written about in Art Forum, Art Papers, the New Yorker and the New York Times. She is represented by Higher Pictures Generation. Mays was a Penumbra Artist-in-Residence in 2018. She was a 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar in Santiago, Chile, where she spent time with astrophysicists using the world’s most advanced telescopes to look at the sky. Mays lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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