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Ash Allen

@soft_shvde

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Photographer/printmaker
Brooklyn, NY
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Chris in the studio @coyado__ by @soft_shvde

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a year ago

My work featured in Balam No.9 with many of my favorite pieces from 2022-2023. Thank you @luis_jua for including me. this is such a beautiful collection of photographers/artists by @soft_shvde

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3 years ago

“Porous Boundary” A new large format print, UV exposed from one single sheet of 30x42” film. I’m excited to be working in a larger scale after we designed and built this UV exposure table. I’ve been thinking a lot about the physical construction of an image and how that has become a spiritual practice for me, so here is some pictures of the construction of this image. Table co-designed and built by @pvppychvlo_ taken in Brooklyn, New York by @soft_shvde

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8 months ago

We’re bringing the whole crew to NYABF @printedmatter_artbookfairs ! This year Balam will be hosting a special group of friends and artists at our booth, including ETS Riso, Ash Allen, and Nico Corona. Most importantly, we’ll be celebrating the launch of our newest issue Balam N12: Caribbean Mermaids. Come by say hello 🤎

🔗Friday, September 25, 6 PM
Signing of Becoming of Flesh with Robert Flynt @robertflyntfoto , Ash Allen @soft_shvde , and Luis Alberto Juárez.

🔗Sunday, September 27, 1 PM
Launch of Balam Issue N12: Sirenas del Caribe with guest editor Carlos Martiel @martielcarlos and Luis Alberto Juárez. Hosting the booth and signings with Dulcina Abreu @dulcinaabreu .

📍BOOTH T65
MoMA PS1
22–25 Jackson Ave.
Queens, NY 11101

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@luis_jua @gaykiss___ @ets.riso @soft_shvde @robertflyntfoto @dulcinaabreu taken in MoMA PS1 by @soft_shvde

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Last week to see “Becoming of Flesh” my duo show with @robertflyntfoto up through September 7th at @secret_riso_club curated by @luis_jua by @soft_shvde

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Photos from the launch for “Becoming of Flesh” at @secret_riso_club last Friday. Huge than you to everyone who came out and supported. Special thank you to @_____kerley for installing our exhibition, and @julianxcamilo for these photos. The exhibition is on view at secret riso club now through September 7th. taken in Secret Riso Club by @soft_shvde

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Guys It’s my birthday today 🤍 if you want to celebrate with me come to my Book launch at @secret_riso_club next Friday ! August 7th from 6:30-9:00 ! If you’re seeing this you’re invited ;p by @soft_shvde

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ETS Riso presents the launch of "Becoming of Flesh" by Ash Allen and Robert Flynt, edited by Luis Juárez. The publication brings together more than five decades of Robert Flynt’s work in dialogue with the artistic practice of Ash Allen. The notion of becoming emerges as a way of naturalizing the condition of homosexual bodies that, through dissidence, have disrupted normative frameworks, opening new ways of understanding masculinity as fluid, non-linear, and in constant transformation.

These images weave together desire, eroticism, spirituality, and visual codes, moving beyond fixed representations to immerse us in layered forms of otherness. In doing so, they challenge the illusion of fixed logic and unsettle the inherited vocabularies of toxic masculinity. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies.

To accompany the launch, an exhibition featuring material from the book will be on view through September 7.

DJ set by Doula
August 7, 6.30 – 9 PM
Secret Riso Club
122 Central Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11221

Printed in Barcelona Spain by @clubdelprado
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@soft_shvde @robertflyntfoto @luis_jua @secret_riso_club @ddddoula @ets.riso taken in Secret Riso Club by @soft_shvde

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3 months ago

Some favorite pages from “Becoming of Flesh” my new photobook collaboration with @robertflyntfoto. Preorders are still available in bio and thank you to everyone who’s ordered so far, shipping will start soon 🤍 published by @ets.riso edited by @luis_jua by @soft_shvde

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3 months ago

Celebrating 7 years of sobriety today. I feel a lot of gratitude being able to meet this version of myself, or just to experience this version of my life. Despite a lot of challenges I can easily say that these have been the best 7 years of my life so far. 🎰
Photo by @julianxcamilo by @soft_shvde

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4 months ago

New photobook ⚪️ “Becoming of Flesh” launches in Paris at @ds_galerie next Thursday, June 4. Available online for PREORDER now (link in bio). This publication brings together the work by artist Robert Flynt, spanning five decades, in dialogue with the practice of Ash Allen. Examining the ways we approach the body, spirituality, and analogue processes in our practices.
Read the full description in final slide.
Edition & Design: @luis_jua
Published by: @ets.riso
Printed by: @clubdelprado
Risograph-printed in Barcelona, Spain.
June 2026
Limited edition of 200 copies. by @soft_shvde

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5 months ago

Prints Available now (shop link in bio) of my recent work “Threshold” in a limited edition of 25. 11x14 Digitally printed on 100 lb Neenah cardstock.
This image is the product of a multi-process exploration of portraiture and the self.
Starting with photography, I use analogue exposure processes to distort the image and render it onto canvas. I scan the canvas and digitally reprint it here on paper.
In my portraiture practice I’m interested in the physical construction of “image”, and the act of transformation via physically pushing a photograph through multiple processes. I explore that “changing of states” as a way to reflect on the nature of change in my internal and external world.
That is one of my obsessions. by @soft_shvde

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