Oblivion by Ransom Ashley in a thin walnut frame leaning against a taupe studio wall

Oblivion by Ransom Ashley matted above a bleached oak bench in a butter yellow room

Ransom Ashley

Oblivion

$652.00

Expédition calculée au moment du paiement.

Shown framed. The print price doesn't include a frame. To have it framed, email studio@sonofrand.com or order the framed option where it's offered. We'll price the frame with our gallery and send you a separate invoice before it ships.

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Each print is made to order and signed by the artist. Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for printing before it ships, and 4 to 6 weeks if we're framing it for you.

About the work

A figure lies face down across a blue kiddie pool in a wide green lawn, a garden hose trailing off. Is she cooling off on a hot afternoon, or has something darker happened here? Seen from above, the picture refuses to answer. There is desperation in it and real beauty, a refuge that could be light or dark, and it holds both without choosing. From Virgins.

Details

Oblivion, 2011. Shreveport, Louisiana.

From the series Virgins.

Archival pigment print (giclée) on Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Signed and numbered by the artist, with a certificate of authenticity. Edition sizes are counted across all sizes of this work.

The artist’s perspective

“I have always attempted to create narratives that people could find themselves in.”

Ransom Ashley, in conversation with Melissa Worrall, METAL

About the artist

Ransom Ashley

Ransom Ashley is an artist from Shreveport, Louisiana, working between Austin, Texas and New York. He works across photography, music, poetry, film and design. He grew up in a Baptist church where he also went to school in a world that had no room for who he was. Being the other there, and learning to watch from the edge of things, is where his work begins. He found his first real sense of belonging in community theater and on film sets, acting before he turned to photography, then studied photography at Parsons in New York. That training in performance still shapes how he directs a frame.

His first body of work, Virgins, cast his closest girlfriends, who had come up through similar religious upbringings and met in the same community theater programs. They stood in for feelings he couldn't yet name. In his words, the pictures became "meditations through which I would project my feelings and experiences in order to make sense of them." From Margins on, the work turns outward, to members of the LGBTQIA+ community in Texas who hide behind characters made together with him, a cinematic approach he says frees them "to unleash our vulnerabilities." The recent work pushes further into staging. Colour carries the story, and a shoe, a glove or a spill of yellow carries the person.

His work and projects have been featured in Dazed, Wonderland, METAL, Fisheye, Teen Vogue, Texas Monthly, Epicurious and The New York Times. His work has been exhibited at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and the New Britain Museum of American Art, as well as in London, Brighton and Budapest, and selected for juried exhibitions by Whitney Museum of American Art curator Elisabeth Sussman and by Gemma Padley of the British Journal of Photography. Wombat Paris published a retrospective of his photographs as its Artist Box No. 34, first presented at Les Rencontres d'Arles. He has spoken on art, identity and entrepreneurship at SXSW and Capital Factory, moderated panels for Soho House, and acted alongside Holly Hunter in Strange Weather.

Explore the artist’s portfolio In conversation with Ransom

For collectors

Collector's notes

Is each print signed and numbered?

Yes. Every print is signed and numbered by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity, also signed and numbered to match.

How do the editions work?

Each size is its own limited edition. When a size sells out, that size is closed and will not be printed again.

Who makes the prints?

Every print is made to order by Agave Print, one of Texas's premier fine art printers, known for museum-quality work. Prints are archival pigment prints (giclée) on Hahnemühle Baryta paper, and Ransom approves and oversees every print personally.

How long does it take?

Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for printing before your print ships, and 4 to 6 weeks if we're framing it for you.

Can you help me frame it?

Yes, and this is where we go further than most. We'll help you find the right frame for your space and walk you through a broad catalog of framing and matting options. You can reach us by WhatsApp, email or text, whatever is easiest for you. If you choose matting and framing, it's priced with our gallery and invoiced separately before your piece ships. Framed pieces arrive ready to hang.

How is it shipped?

Unframed prints ship insured. Smaller prints travel flat between rigid boards, and larger prints are rolled in archival tissue inside a wide protective tube. Shipping is free within the US on our larger sizes. Framed pieces ship anywhere, and in Austin, large framed pieces can be delivered with white glove service on request.

Can I return or exchange a print?

Because every print is made to order, prints can't be returned or exchanged.