About
Studio Billingsley is the creative team of Ashley and Mic Billingsley. Our projects blend traditional artmaking methods and forms such as painting and sculpture with site-specific, time-based media and installation elements.
Ashley Billingsley makes paintings, drawings and installations that address landscape as a site of human vulnerability, turbulence and doubt. Recent projects include Reverse River, a series of paintings excerpting fragments of the Cambodian landscape along the Tonlé Sap River; and Fire in Woods, graphite drawings inspired by a scene in Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film, Seven Samurai. She received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University combined degree program and a BFA from the University of Minnesota. Select exhibitions include Indefinable Nature: Ashley Billingsley and Sarah Wentworthat the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA; An Aesthetics of Slowness at Dorsky Gallery in Long Island City, NY; and On the Streets, an exhibition at JavaArts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, sponsored by apexart, NY.
Mic Billingsley is a creative collaborator, problem solver and museum exhibition professional. He works with institutions and individuals on a consulting basis to realize projects ranging from one of a kind art objects to large scale installations. He comes to art by way of science, engineering and furniture making, and makes work that revolves around a core interest in identifying individual features and amplifying them to bring forth qualities that are present but often unnoticed. Select projects include casework construction and archival lighting design for the Declaration of Independence at the MA State Archives; installation of Theo Jansen's Strandbeest exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; and design and construction of “Underpinnings,” a kinetic, drawing sculpture created in collaboration with artist Ethan Murrow as part of the Currier Museum of Art’s fall 2018-2019 exhibition “Hauling.”
