Ashley Eriksmoen

Ashley Eriksmoen is a California-born Australia-based furniture maker, woodworker, artist, and educator.

Ashley Eriksmoen
EducationBoston College (BFS 1992), College of the Redwoods (Certificate, 1998), Rhode Island School of Design (MFA 2000)
Known forFurniture maker and educator
Websitehttps://ashleyeriksmoen.com/home.html

Early life and education

Eriksmoen was born in raised in southern California.[1] Eriksmoen attended Boston College, receiving a BS in Geology in 1992. She took a year off during undergraduate to study art at the Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, Italy.[2] Eriksmoen studied at the College of the Redwoods (now the Krenov School) from 1997 to 1998, receiving a Certificate of Fine Woodworking.[3] She went on to receive a Masters in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2000.[4]

Career

Artist

Eriksmoen uses salvaged urban waste such as tables and chairs to create complex interwoven sculptures.[5] She was included in a curated group exhibition in 2019 about humans and the environment titled I Thought I Heard a Bird at Craft ACT in Canberra, Australia.[5][6] Her series Feral: Rewilding Furniture, made with found broken timber, personifies and animates found furniture, comparing the living and built world.[2] Eriksmoen was an artist-in-residence artist at San Diego State University[7] Eriksmoen is a member of the Furniture Society and a part of the Studio Furniture movement.[8]

Her artwork has been published in 500 Tables, American Woodworker Magazine, and With Wakened Hands, a book on the students of James Krenov.[9][10] She was awarded a Fuji Xerox Sustainable Art Award in 2014[11] Eriksmoen's piece Criogriff was featured in the exhibition Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking at the Center for Art in Wood in 2019.[12][13] She was also interviewed for a book on the same topic by the show's curators Laura Mays and Deirdre Visser which is set to be released in 2020.[14]

Educator

Eriksmoen is the head of the Furniture Design program at the Australian National University's School of Art and Design.[15]

References
  1. "Ms Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen | Climate Change Institute". climate.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  2. Pryor, Sally (9 June 2016). "Back to the wild: Canberra-based woodwork artist Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen on 'feral' furniture". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  3. "Ashley Eriksmoen « The Krenov School of Fine Furniture". thekrenovschool.org. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  4. "Alumni News" (PDF). RISD Views: 30. June 2009.
  5. Cousins, Kerry-Anne (8 April 2019). "Two exhibitions that provide a dialogue between us and our environment". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  6. "I thought I heard a bird". Craft ACT. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  7. "Ashley Eriksmoen". SDSU Furniture Design and Woodworking. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  8. "Ashley Eriksmoen | The Furniture Society". Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  9. Hemachandra, Ray; Hale, Julie (2009). 500 tables : inspiring interpretations of function and style (1st ed.). New York: Lark Books. p. 341. ISBN 9781600590573. OCLC 236117397.
  10. "Excellence Awards Finalists". American Woodworker. 70. December 1998.
  11. "2014 Award Recipients". CAPO. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  12. "Criogriff". The Center for Art in Wood. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  13. "The Show". Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  14. "Participants". Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  15. School, Head of; enquiries.visualarts@anu.edu.au (16 December 2011). "Ashley Eriksmoen". School of Art & Design. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
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