BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

b. San Diego, CA
Lives and works in San Diego and San Bernardino, CA



EDUCATION

2012       San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Sculpture       
2009       Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture      
2005       University of California, Riverside, MA Art History        
2000       San Diego State University, BA Painting and Printmaking             



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014

Keeping Up Appearances installation, Lion Brand Yarn Studio, New York, NY (upcoming)

2013

Keeping Up Appearances installation, Small Works Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art (upcoming)

Keeping Up Appearances installation, Roz Steiner Gallery, Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY (upcoming)

2008
Walking Shadows: The Art of Ashley Blalock, Gallery La Mesa, La Mesa, CA



SELECTED GROUP AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

California Fibers: Defined, Merced Multicultural Arts Center, Merced, CA

Connecting Threads, LAX, Terminal One, Los Angeles, CA

Tracing the Steps- The Diversity of Fiber, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA

Here and Now, Marilyn Werby Gallery, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

Home is Where the Needle Marks, Pop tART Gallery, Los Angeles, CA        

Push, Pull, Play, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
MFA Graduate Exhibition, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA

2011
Duality, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2010
Simultaneous Inversions: Mirror Stage/Shadow Stage, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
California Fibers: 40 Years, Gresham Gallery, San Bernardino, CA
Augmented Desire, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
I Know What You Did Last Summer, St. Cecelia Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Collective Thread, University of Central Missouri Art Gallery, Warrensburg, MO
Liminal Spaces, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA
Movers & Shakers, Art Expressions Gallery, San Diego, CA
Tranquility of Manipulation, Riverside Arts Project, Riverside, CA

2009
Focus on Fiber II, Studio Channel Island Art Center, Oxnard, CA
Dream Weavers, Quad Gallery, Riverside City College, Riverside, CA

2008        
Forms in Wood and Fiber, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
5x7 on the Road: Houston at Inman Gallery, Houston, TX and Dallas at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2007
College Invitational, Gresham Gallery, San Bernardino, CA
Walk the Line, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA

2006        
New American Talent: The Twenty-First Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, Juried by Aimee Chang, traveling from 2006 to 2008
Masks, Visages, and Veils, Artisans Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, VA       
Destinations, RogerLewisKing Gallery, San Diego, CA                
New Beginnings, RogerLewisKing Gallery, San Diego, CA               

2005       
Le Petite XIII, Alder Art Gallery, Coburg, OR                

2003         
Mosaic Art and Literary Journal Art Exhibition, University of California, Riverside

2001        
Earthspun, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA

2000        
CuBop Connection, Brick by Brick, San Diego, CA



BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012
- MFA Now Archive Catalog, published for Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2011
- San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Issue 7, page 3

2010        
- “Visions Art Quilt Gallery showcases ‘California Fibers’”, San Diego News Network, SDNN.com

2008            
- "Vamos al museo Mingei", Diaro San Diego, August 13 (artwork pictured)
- “Best Bets: Into the Shadows”, The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 24, page E1
- Stiff, Burl, "Wood and Fiber Come together Beautifully at Mingei," The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 10, page E10 
- Sand Canyon Review, Crafton Hills College

2007
- O'Neill Houck, Amy, "Ashley Blalock in Crochet," Interweave Crochet Magazine, Spring

2006
- Bae, James, "New American Talent: A Review of Arthouse's New American Talent 21," Fluent~Collaborative, Issue #72, June 30
- Chang, Aimee, New American Talent: The Twenty-First Exhibition, Catalog, Arthouse at the Jones Center
- Pincus, Robert L., "All Hands on Deck," The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2
- Lake, Savannah, “Grrrrrl Power Gives Voice to Local Female Artists,” The Falconer, March 16

2003
- Mosiac Art and Literary Journal, University of California, Riverside



PUBLICATIONS and CONFERENCE PAPERS

2008       Studies in Art: Institutions, Form, Materials, and Meaning. Kendall-Hunt Publishing. Text written and illustrated by Ashley Blalock, 300pgs.

2003       Gardner versus Gardner: A Comparison of Art History Survey Texts, (dis)junctions Conference, University of California Riverside



PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

California Fibers
College Art Association

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

2009        Fresco Workshop with Daniel Bozhkov, Skowhegan School of Painting and  
               Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2008        Intermediate Weaving with Christie Dunning, UCSD Crafts Center, La Jolla
2007        Tapestry Weaving with Rebecca Smith, Needlework Cottage, San Diego, CA
               Beginning Weaving with Christie Dunning, UCSD Crafts Center, La Jolla, CA
2006        Lampwork Workshop with Heather Trimlett, Blue Dolphin, San Diego, CA
1998        Images Without Darkrooms with David B. Moore, UCLA Ext, Los Angeles, CA