Asa Mease is an artist, gardener, baker, and educator. His work in sculpture, community-based practices, and printed media deals with notions of value, choice architectures, foodstuffs, systems of communication, and the weather. His work is rooted in a conceptual and research-based practice. This range of objects and actions considers how political, economic, and natural ecologies are situated within the landscape, and shape our understandings of places both familiar and un-.
Originally from Williston, Vermont, he received his MFA in Sculpture and Post-Studio Practice at the University of Colorado Boulder, and BA in Studio Art and Biology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He has shown at Carnation Contemporary, 1122 Outside, SATOR Projects, and After/Time in Portland, Oregon, The East Oregonian Gallery in Pendleton, OR, The Patton-Malott Gallery in Snowmass, CO, and most recently in the fields and farms of the front range and eastern plains of Colorado at FrontLine Farming and Prairie Sea Projects. Past residencies include GLEAN Portland, Sou'wester, and the Alma Creative Residency at the Prairie Futures Site in Joes, Colorado. He is a former member of WAVE Contemporary Artists Collective in Portland, Oregon. He currently lives and works in central Oregon.
Reflections on Color and Printmaking — Asa Mease December 2022
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