Lauren Ashley Wells

With clean draftsmanship, skilled editing, and her palette of the moment, Ashley Wells transforms humble objects and overlooked scenes into thoughtful essays on the pleasures of paying attention. After moving thirty seven times, the artist claims she’s from “nowhere” and says that this restlessness is what prompts her to use her art to impose “order on a world I can’t contain otherwise.” Wells has exhibited her work throughout the United States, The Netherlands and China.

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• Focus Exhibitions (The Hour) at Greater Reston Arts Center - Reston, VA, 2010
• Brave New World at Adam Lister Gallery - Fairfax, VA, 2010
• Faraway Neabry, Jurur, Dale Marin Lanzone at Greater Reston Arts Center - Reston, VA, 2009
• VMRC's Sixth Annual Jurie Art Exhibition with Jurors Yuriko Yamaguchi, Robert Stewardt, and Margot Bergman at Park Gables Main Street Gallery - Harrisonburg, VA, 2009

• Mississippi State University, M.A. English - Starkville, MS,1988 
• Millsaps College, B.A. Cum Laude in English with a minor in Art - Jackson, MS,1986 

• Capitol City Visual Arts Exhibit, Juror Becky Frehse, KMJ Center for the Arts, Gallery, Olympia, WA, Second Place Award - 2007
• Fifth Annual Juried Local Art Exhibit, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA, Juror Award and Golden Paint Award - 2007
• Sequim Arts 31st Annual Juried Arts Show, St. Luke’s Hall, Sequim, WA, Work of Note and Merit Award - 2007