FROM VERMONT ART GUIDE #5
Ashley Roark’s South End Studio
Ashley Roark is a mixed media artist who is particularly interested in creating collections using post industrial office supplies. Roark studied of industrial and interaction design at Syracuse University, and now lives and works in Burlington. In January 2016, she opened Plus or Minus Studio in the Soda Plant on Pine Street in the South End Arts District. The well lit and beautifully organized studio can be found up a flight of stairs inside Vintage Inspired. Vermont Art Guide #5 has a profile of Roark’s studio.
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Roark collages post-industrial office supplies, making then breaking a grid. The result a delicate balance that liberates the objects from their given status and produces a new history which engages the viewer to dissect parts of each piece. Her use of material choices ambiguously nods to experience and memory of twentieth century America. A vintage Corona typewriter proudly sits in her studio.
Each issue of Vermont Art Guide has over a hundred places to see art around the state. The full-color, printed magazine has artist and venue profiles as well as articles and news about Vermont Art. Our goal is to document and share the state’s incredible art scene.
Ashley Roark’s Plus or Minus Studio is located upstairs from Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace at 270 Pine Street, in the Soda Plant next to Conant Metal & Light. The studio is open Thursday-Saturday, Noon-5PM and by appointment. Find out more on Instagram @plus_or_minus_studio.
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