Former Fulbright US Student in Chile, Aspen Mays, shines with exhibition in New York City.

A solo art exhibition, Tengallon Sunflower, at Higher Pictures in New York, March 12- April 30, 2016 shows her work as “part of a new generation of experimental photographers”.

Her first artist book has also been included in Huffington Post’s Top Ten Finds of the Fair

Opening: “Aspen Mays: Tengallon Sunflower” at Higher Pictures

 Part of a new generation of experimental photographers that utilize the medium for aesthetic ends, Aspen Mays presents an investigation of personal objects for her fist solo show with the gallery. Using a pair of bandanas (one with a starburst pattern owned by her great grandmother and the other bearing white dots and dyed with indigo that was owned by the great American artist Georgia O’Keefe) as her point of departure, Ms. Mays applied pin pricks to the fabrics as a way to transfer their patterns to photo paper. She then used the paper negative to make a photogram (a photographic image made without a camera) and, in the case of several of the works on view, dyed the prints with indigo. The final result poetically references the two women, as well as the artist’s starry night experience working with astrophysicists as a Fulbright Scholar in Chile.

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