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On view now!
@saveartspace: Lost in Language & Sound

Selected artist & location
@ashley.cole__
N Alvarado St & Scott Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Artist bio
Anchored in the legacy of Compton’s cultural resilience and shaped in the shadow of the Watts Towers, Ashley Cole’s practice weaves together abstraction, assemblage, and gesture into expansive, sculptural paintings. Her canvases—often draped, cut, and stitched—engage the improvisational language of jazz, echoing the sonic freedom of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Influenced by Abstract Expressionism and the spatial poetics of artists like Sam Gilliam, Cole constructs visual compositions that unfold like psychological terrains and spiritual manuscripts. Textural surfaces—burnt edges, raw canvas, automatist markings, and geometric linework in metallics and pastels—become repositories for song lyrics, numerologies, and graffiti-inspired ciphers. Twine and thread, recalling her training in fashion design at Brooks College, bind these works together in acts of both deconstruction and repair. Cole’s evolving canvases are at once deeply personal and socially resonant—meditations on memory, fragmentation, and transformation in an age of rupture and reconfiguration.

Curator
@mikaylalrodriguez

Partners
@unmet.us
@shakexdois
@joyce_dtla

On view
April 17 - May 10, 2026

Learn more about the artist and curator at the link in bio.
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