Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Ashley Bickerton

Biography

Ashley Bickerton was born in the West Indies in 1959. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1982, and continued his education in the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program in New York. Over the last twenty-five years Bickerton has exhibited extensively around the world and his artwork can be found in many museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, all New York; The Tate Gallery, London and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Currently his work may be seen in Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection at the Deste Foundation in Athens, Greece and recently, he was included in The Incomplete at the Chelsea Art Museum and the East Village USA retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Bickerton was a seminal figure in the East Village scene in New York and one of the original members of the group of artists that came to be known as "Neo-Geo." He remains an influential figure with younger generations today and since 1993 Bickerton has taken up full-time residence on the island of Bali where he continues to work.
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Gallery Exhibitions

New Work 540 West 26th Street  20 March - 3 May 2008
Ashley Bickerton  6 May - 26 May 2006

Press

The New Yorker - The New Yorker - April, 2008
Village Voice - Village Voice - April, 2008
New York Times - New York Times - April, 2008
VOGUE - VOGUE - September, 2007
Artforum - Artforum - December, 2006
New York Times - New York Times - May, 2006
New York Sun - New York Sun - May, 2006
New York Times - New York Times - March, 2006

Selected Works

ASHLEY BICKERTON LH 17, 2007 oil and digital print on canvas in carved wood, coconut, mother of pearl and coin inlaid artist frame 80 x 72 x 7 inches 203.2 x 182.9 x 17.8 cm


ASHLEY BICKERTON Yellow Canoe, 2006 acrylic and digital print on canvas in carved wood, coconut, mother of pearl and coin inlaid artist frame 72 x 86 x 7 inches 182.9 x 218.4 x 17.8 cm


ASHLEY BICKERTON Triple Snake Head , 2008 bronze 59 x 39 x 25 inches 149.9 x 99.1 x 63.5 cm Edition of 6


ASHLEY BICKERTON Famili, 2007 acrylic and digital print on canvas in carved wood, coconut, mother of pearl and coin inlaid artist frame 86 x 72 x 7 inches 218.4 x 182.9 x 17.8 cm


Atoll Babe No. 1, 2006 printed paper 23 x 19 inches (paper) 58.4 x 48.3 cm Edition of 15 LM9717


ASHLEY BICKERTON Extradition with Fruit, 2006 c-print in mother of pearl inlaid artist frame 36.18 x 43.87 inches (paper) 92 x 111.5 cm 43.25 x 51.5 inches (framed) 110 x 130 cm Edition of 10 LM10684


Green Reflecting Heads with Hula Girls No. 1, 2006 paper printed with silver ink 50 x 63 inches (paper) 127 x 160 cm LM9660


ASHLEY BICKERTON Rat Island Painting, 1993 mixed media 69 x 59 x 13 inches 175.3 x 149.9 x 33 cm LM10001


ASHLEY BICKERTON Snake Head No. 4, 2006 printed paper 23.5 x 19.5 inches (paper) 59.7 x 49.5 cm 26.5 x 22 inches (framed) 67.3 x 55.9 cm Edition of 15


ASHLEY BICKERTON Jack Blaylock, 2001 acrylic, aniline dye, oil, pencil and photographs on wood 72.05 x 96.06 x 13.39 inches 183 x 244 x 34 cm LM10506


Green Reflecting Head Version No. 2, 2006 printed paper 42 x 32 inches (paper) 106.7 x 81.3 cm Edition 2 of 15 LM9707


ASHLEY BICKERTON A.B. 14, 2006 embroidery on fabric 11.5 x 19 inches 29.2 x 48.3 cm 18.9 x 26.38 inches (framed) 48 x 67 cm LM9775


ASHLEY BICKERTON Flight from Borneo to Sulawesi/ Ash's Atoll, 1993 resin, hydrostone, pigment, oil paint, aluminum fiberglass, foam, enamel paint 60 x 48 x 46.25 inches 152.4 x 121.9 x 117.5 cm LM10542


ASHLEY BICKERTON Abstract Painting for People 4 (Bad), 1987 lacquer and acrylic on polymer resin and plywood with anodised aluminum 68 x 48 x 15 inches 172.7 x 121.9 x 38.1 cm LM9869


ASHLEY BICKERTON A.B. 20, 2006 embroidery on fabric 11.5 x 19 inches 29.2 x 48.3 cm 18.9 x 26.38 inches (framed) 48 x 67 cm LM9781