Eve Aschheim (born 1958) is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her work explores the intersection of drawing, painting, and digital media, often characterized by layered compositions and a focus on the process of creation. Aschheim's art has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and she has received several awards and fellowships for her contributions to contemporary art. She is also a professor at Princeton University, where she teaches visual arts.

Life and career

A native of

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, Aschheim lived in

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and

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as a child. She studied art at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, where she received her BA in 1984, working primarily with artists Elmer Bischoff,

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and Chris Brown. In 1987 she received her MFA at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

, under the instruction of

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, Harvey Himelfarb,

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, Mike Henderson, Manual Neri, and

Robert Arneson Robert Carston Arneson (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades. Early life and education Robert Carston Arnes ...

. She began teaching as an adjunct lecturer in the Visual Arts Program at

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in 1991 and she became full-time in 2001. From 2003 to 2007 she served as director of the Visual Arts Program, Aschheim's paintings and drawings are abstract and geometric. She is a member of

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. Aschheim is married to

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, with whom she has a child. They live in

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Exhibitions

Recent solo exhibitions of Aschheim's work include "Lines without Outlines", “T” Space, (Rhinebeck, NY, 2017 and Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College 2018), Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC (2016), and Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin (2015, with Hanns Schimansky). Solo museum exhibitions of her work include the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, the Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, the New York Studio School, and Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Aschheim has exhibited regularly in Europe at Galerie Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin, Galleri Magnus Aklundh, Malmo, Sweden, and Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin.

Awards

During her career she has received fellowships from the

New York Foundation for the Arts The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is an independent 501(c)(3) charity, funded through government, foundation, corporate, and individual support, established in 1971. It is part of a network of national not-for-profit arts organizations ...

, the

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...

, the Elizabeth Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the

Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing funding to visual artists internationally to further their artistic practices. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expr ...

, and she has been awarded the Purchase Award and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, both from the

American Academy of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, Music of the United States, music, and Visual art of the United States, art. Its fixed number ...

. She received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

in 2012. In 2017 she was elected an Academician of the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Styles Agate, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, an ...

Collections

Three of her works, including one formerly owned by the

Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C., that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corco ...

, are in the collection of the

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in ...

, while six are owned by the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

. Her work is also in the collection of the

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is a collecting museum located in North Miami, Florida. The building was designed by the architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York City. History The Museum of Contemporary Art beg ...

. Additional collections: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; The Hood Museum of Dartmouth College, NH; Kupferstichkabinett, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico; The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM ; The New-York Historical Society; The Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library Contemporary Drawings Collection, New York City; The Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; Princeton University Art Museum; University of Alaska, Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque; University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; The San Diego Museum of Art; Yale University Art Museum

References

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