Ashley Lande, born July 25th, 1983, is a self-taught artist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri.“I have had mornings kicking down the cobblestones still wet from the rebirth, the pillow of the night still beneath you; illuminations that hold the very air in vacuumed rapture; glitter, glittering glittered things surrounding; the love that pervades, the heart whole-made; the oceanic absorption and magic rhythmic mandala shuddering and rippling outward from its centrifuge which is the center of all mystery and life; the Christ love received through eyes lachrymaed and I giving back with the only love I know which is absolute surrender but still a treacly trickle upon the flood entering me; leaves that shudder whispery below the unfurling clouds and the diamond sky; visions untranslatable that evade paper but I still try; also I have had darkness that swallows and shapes that do not meet with the shrillest disharmony; candlelit hells spent in the inhospitable spiral of Papadiabolus; rarely I have had hell but more often I have had heaven as should be granted unto all of us.”
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Windhorse Gallery, Kansas CIty, Missouri. "The Kingdom Is At Hand".
2009 Mercy Seat Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. “Truth + Magical Love = Freedom”.
2009 Old Shoreditch Station Gallery, London, England. “Truth + Magical Love = Freedom”.
2008 Love Garden Gallery. Lawrence, KS. “Wrangled Brain Tangle”.
2008 Mercy Seat Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. “Glutting the Sensorium”.
Group Exhibitions
2010 Windhorse Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. “Mantik Manifesto”.
2010 Scion Installation L.A., Los Angeles, California. “Close To a World Below”.
2010 The Observatory, Brooklyn, NYC, “Vision Quest”.
2009 Needles & Pens Gallery, San Francisco, CA. “You’ve Got Light in Your Eyes”.
2008 DreamBags JaguarShoes Gallery, London, England. “The Here and Now”.
Iglesias, Pablo. “Inkjection: Ashley Lande”. Belio Magazine, December 2009. Madrid, Spain.