Ashley L. Milburn / Portfolio

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Male Fetish 2013

Hand formed cardboard and heavy papers, glue, twine, wood stain (22"X17"X14")

Detail, Male Fetish

Shuck'in The Coon Coat 2013

Cardboard, acrylics, wood stain, 12'X8"X6" (2013) This was part of a series of self-exploration revealing for myself my fears and buggie men. We all have to "shuck" our coats of self-hatred.

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Hoodie With Dying Rose

Cardboard, metal acrylics, glue 23"X28"X12" (2013) I've been working on the hoodie form since 2008. The work presented is faceless, but exists as a soul. This was intentional. I wanted the view to understand that a hoodie is just a coat. We bring the baggage of our fears that fills in the coat. The hoodie form is a wonderful form to work with.

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Hoodie 2012

8"X5"X12" Hand formed cardboard, metal acrylics, glues

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GW's Groomsman

Fable for Inspiration for the Lawn Jockey Acrylic on panel, 2013 Work built around the fable of how the lawn jockey came into being. George Washington's Groomsman was told to watch his horse while be crossed the Delaware. When GW got back the Groomsman (A 12 yr old slave) was frozen to death still holding the horse. GW was so impressed by his service that he had a statue created to commemorate the slave dutifulness, the lawn jockey came into being.

Murder of Crows at the Fountain

Digital Illustrations 2013

BlackFace Boogie Man

Acrylic on panel, (2013) The act of visualizing racism is a specific act and it is a deliberate reaction to directly confronting the effects of racist imagery. Visual racist ideology promotes injustice and examples its negative messages through art forms designed to promote it’s into our daily lives.To some extent, the impact of racist imagery reaches deep in our subconscious continually subverting our concept of self-identity. The concept of “FLIP,” an intentional flipping of the narrative of r

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Digital Illustrations, 2013

The Haunting of Rosa Parks 2013

Digital Illustration

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KKK Flag Dance 2013

acrylic on paper

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final sacrefice of thor

the fire next time

final3she-wolf feeding (4600 x 3433)

FINAL RESOLUTION-AT THE GATES OF HETIES-

final resolution--the jugement of the th

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horsea

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