Ash Godley
Guelph, Ontario
Booth 126
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Ash Godley (she/they/he) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph, Ontario. They work primarily in oil paint, using a unique command of light and shadow to depict suburban environments and residential interiors. These quotidian landscapes are made eerie using the dramatic contrast of flashlight beams, tv screens, and camera flashes, which are translated into paint from Godley’s photography. With ten years of painting experience, Godley has developed a keen sense of color that allows them to put to canvas the intense lighting and unique distortions captured in these photos. However, the paintings are not direct reproductions as Godley employs measured and fervent brush strokes, celebrating the beauty and unpredictability of the familiar. Godley’s compositions are also positioned from a first-person point of view, allowing viewers to easily place themselves within the images, cultivating their anxieties in the dark, unknowable corners of the frame.
