ARTIST STATEMENT
Ashka’s approach to jewelry making and design is informed by her architectural training and background. Guided by a Modernist aesthetic, Ashka achieves harmony in modular repetititions of geometric forms. A Minimalist aesthetic and preference for clean lines are major forces influencing her work, resulting in pure and graceful pieces. Modernism movements of the 1920s, such the Bauhaus School and Russian avant garde art, are also an inspirations for Ashka in making her work. In her latest collections she also incorporates mid-20th-century design aesthetics.
Ashka's work is sold primarily in museum shops, design stores, fine craft and jewelry galleries throughout the US. She has also sold her work in Japan, Hong Kong and in Europe. Ashka has exhibited her work at many prestigious craft shows in the US, such as Crafts at the Castle (Boston), Philadelphia Museum Craft Fair, Craft Boston, American Craft Council shows in Baltimore, Atlanta, Charlotte, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Sarasota. Publications include Metropolis, Ornament, and Niche.
Ashka's work has been sold at the following museum stores:
SF MOMA Museum Store, San Francisco, CA
The Guggenheim Museum Store, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NY
Fallingwater Museum Shop, Mill Run, PA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsbugh, PA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Selected stores and crafts galleries:
Akar, Iowa City, IA
Arango, Miami, FL
Art & Soul, Washington, D.C.
Caleb Meyer Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Del Mano Gallery, West Los Angeles, CA
Design Concern, Seattle, WA
Diamond Tanita Gallery, Portland, OR
Freehand, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery WDO, Charlotte, NC
Martina & Company, Providence, RI
Newbill Collection, Seaside, FL
Pistachios, Chicago, IL
River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Sansar, Bethesda, MD
Shaw Jewelry, Northeast Harbor, ME
The Fanny Garver Gallery, Madison, WI
Ashka’s approach to jewelry making and design is informed by her architectural training and background. Guided by a Modernist aesthetic, Ashka achieves harmony in modular repetititions of geometric forms. A Minimalist aesthetic and preference for clean lines are major forces influencing her work, resulting in pure and graceful pieces. Modernism movements of the 1920s, such the Bauhaus School and Russian avant garde art, are also an inspirations for Ashka in making her work. In her latest collections she also incorporates mid-20th-century design aesthetics.
Ashka's work is sold primarily in museum shops, design stores, fine craft and jewelry galleries throughout the US. She has also sold her work in Japan, Hong Kong and in Europe. Ashka has exhibited her work at many prestigious craft shows in the US, such as Crafts at the Castle (Boston), Philadelphia Museum Craft Fair, Craft Boston, American Craft Council shows in Baltimore, Atlanta, Charlotte, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Sarasota. Publications include Metropolis, Ornament, and Niche.
Ashka's work has been sold at the following museum stores:
SF MOMA Museum Store, San Francisco, CA
The Guggenheim Museum Store, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NY
Fallingwater Museum Shop, Mill Run, PA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsbugh, PA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Selected stores and crafts galleries:
Akar, Iowa City, IA
Arango, Miami, FL
Art & Soul, Washington, D.C.
Caleb Meyer Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Del Mano Gallery, West Los Angeles, CA
Design Concern, Seattle, WA
Diamond Tanita Gallery, Portland, OR
Freehand, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery WDO, Charlotte, NC
Martina & Company, Providence, RI
Newbill Collection, Seaside, FL
Pistachios, Chicago, IL
River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Sansar, Bethesda, MD
Shaw Jewelry, Northeast Harbor, ME
The Fanny Garver Gallery, Madison, WI
