Pomona Art walk

I visited the Pomona Art walk the last Saturday of January metro night. Which most of the galleries was closed on Garey ave. and 2nd street. This is my second time visiting the Pomona art walk, and one of my favorites was the A.S. Ashley studios.

The artist's painting are usually on topics with political, cultural and social imagery. Ashley's paintings present the emblematic society. The subject are from Greek art to Catholicism, Neo Classical rendering of film, pop, and political icons. Ashley often applies a broad range of painting styles and techniques to give a unique naturalism to otherwise conflicting subjects. The studio was designed on a living room set, the above painting is called "the great one" acrylic on canvas.

Rather than serving a captive and sympathetic audience, the artist prefers the spontaneity and chance that goes with " street " art performances.

I like all of his paintings that they are realistic, to the point and up front on the characters in the paintings. which is like the visual type, concerned with depicting outer world by visual imagery, objective, realist, and impressionist forms and colors.

The painting on the right is called venus de heyzeu one of his famous art work. the venus was on a cross with hands add on. The artist are concerned with projecting inner world by symbolic imagery, subjective, conceptual, symbolic, and expressionist forms and colors. The result of experiments are often confusing, especially when attempts are made to make traditional personality types correspond to traditional divisions in style of art.