Ashley Hagen

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Ashley Hagen

 

Ashley Hagen is a contemporary Artist based in Los Angeles. Play is important in her process of uncovering metaphors of home and self, fantasy and reality. Her work delves into the underlying resonance of childhood: limitlessness, inventiveness, mystery, imagination, adventure and possibility. 

Hagen’s work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, including exhibitions at DENK, Western Project, The University Art Museum in Long Beach, Andrew Shire Gallery, The Prospectus, Art Platform, Juried by Ali Subotnick of the Hammer Museum for Boom, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, Deborah Martin gallery, Galerie dei Barri, Cerritos College Art Gallery, and Palais Ferstel in Vienna, Austria. 

She is the co-founder of Rough Play Collective, an LA based artists curatorial group with recent exhibitions: Hold, Far Bazaar, Cerritos College, 2017, Without Design or Sketch: The Story of the Room, Launch LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Go Big or Go Home,The Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA. 

Hagen is co-curator of Available to All, the inaugural site-specific installation for Rough Play Projects, Joshua Tree, CA

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