Ashleigh Sumner (b.1979) is an urban contemporary artist living and working out of East Oakland, CA.Sumner’s early artistic career was firmly rooted in theatre arts with professional credits in stage, independent queer film and network television. Her years of experience as a performer provided a natural evolution of translating elements of text into the visual medium of painting. Sumner’s inclination toward the spoken word serves as a cornerstone to her practice. In 2020, Sumner created a new body of work on canvas as a visual diary of the Covid-19 pandemic. The foundation of this collection of urban contemporary paintings was constructed from layers of found street posters from the communities of San Francisco and Oakland.

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