Eve Aschheim

Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts

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Eve Aschheim, an abstract artist who paints and draws, received her B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley and her M.F.A. from the University of California-Davis. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries nationally and internationally. 

Aschheim had recent solo exhibitions at Some Walls, Oakland, CA; Galleri Magnus Aklundh, Malmo, Sweden; Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin; the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, N.C.; The Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College; Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York City, and the Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.  Her work was included in the recent exhibition “Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society” curated by Dr. Roberta Olson which opened in 2008 and traveled to other museums.  She has exhibited in group exhibitions at venues including the Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; The National Academy of Design, New York; The Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Musee Picardee, Amiens, France; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and Landesgalerie Oberosterreich, Linz, Austria.

The recent recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, Aschheim has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation, and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Her works were recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library’s new contemporary drawings collection, the Yale University Art Museum, and Kupferstichkabinett, Nationalgalerie, Berlin.  Aschheim's works are also held in the collections including the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; the Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, MA; The Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; The Hood Museum of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; M.O.C.A., Miami; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; The New-York Historical Society, NYC; The Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; and the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM.

Aschheim’s drawings are reproduced in publications including Twice Drawn (Prestel, Fall 2011), with contributions by John Berger, Jean Fisher, Stella Santacattarina, the catalog of a survey exhibition of contemporary drawing at the Tang Museum in 2008, curated by Ian Berry and Jack Shear.  Her drawings are also reproduced in 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work 1991-2006 (Yale University Press, 2008) with contributions by James Cuno, Glenn Lowry, Ann Philbin, Earl A. Powell III, Jock Reynolds, et al.  Aschheim’s interviews with Seton Smith, Dawn Clements and John O’Connor were published in The Brooklyn Rail.