Ashley Longshore

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Ashley Longshore
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Born
Sarah Ashley Longshore

NationalityAmerican
Education University of Montana
Occupation(s)Artist, entrepreneur [1]
Website www.ashleylongshore.com

Sarah Ashley Longshore is a Louisiana-based painter and entrepreneur. [2] [3] [4] [5] She is the owner of the Longshore Studio Gallery, located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. [2] [6] Longshore's art focuses on pop culture, Hollywood glamour, and American consumerism. [7]

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Longshore was on Brit + Co’s list of "16 Female Artists You Should Know", [8] and visiting her studio was listed as one of the "15 Best Things to do In New Orleans" by Condé Nast Traveler in 2018. [9] She has worked with celebrity art collectors including Blake Lively, Salma Hayek, Eli Manning, and Penélope Cruz. [10] [11] In 2018, The New York Times described Longshore as an "avatar of pop feminism to thousands of followers". [12]

Early life

Sarah Ashley Longshore was born in Montgomery, Alabama to Spencer Longshore III, the president and CEO of Time and Space Inc., an advertising sales company. [7] She was exposed to the arts as a child and took lessons in tap dancing, ballet, theatre, piano, jazz, and voice. [4] [13] Following her graduation from Brenau Academy, an all-girl boarding school located in Gainesville, Georgia, Longshore obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of Montana. [6] [7] While a student at the University of Montana, Longshore took a semester off to paint. [14] Longshore is a self-taught artist, [15] and spent much of her early career reproducing Picasso paintings. [4] She put together a portfolio and began showing her work to galleries around Missoula, Montana. Her first art show was at a small-town gallery. [14]

Career

In 2011, Longshore was commissioned by Chloé to create a painting that depicted the fashion house's history. [3]

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Longshore with Audrey Diptych, 2014

In September 2013, Longshore held a pop-up art exhibition entitled “Fashionably Late” at the Pop-Up Art Gallery in New York City. [16] [17]

Longshore was featured on Vogue.com in Spring 2014, where she spoke about the role of Instagram as an emerging platform for art sales. [18] [19] In 2015, Longshore sold over $1 million worth of art. [20] [21] CUE Magazine recognized Longshore as a New Orleans Style Maker in 2016. [22] In August 2016, Longshore's office and studio was featured on Elle Decor . [23] Longshore partnered with fashion brand Cle de Peau and designed a line of home goods in 2016. [15] In February 2017, she released her first book You Don't Look Fat, You Look Crazy: An Unapologetic Guide to Being Ambitchous, [24] as "tongue-in-cheek guide to living an 'ambitchous' life". [25] [26] In November 2018, she created artwork for to support the launch of Gucci’s “Do It Yourself” initiative. [27]

In 2019, Longshore partnered with Maybelline to create lipstick packaging based on her artwork. [28] She also partnered with Eric Buterbaugh for her first LA show, which took place at his personal gallery. [29]

In January 2020, Longshore was featured as a guest judge on season 18 of Project Runway. [30]

In 2021, The Peninsula Beverly Hills celebrated its 30th anniversary with Longshore acting as an Artist-In-Residence, featuring 20+ new works created by Longshore during her residency around the hotel. [31] Longshore and Judith Leiber launched their second collection collaboration in November 2020. [32]

In 2022, YoungArts launched The Ashley Longshore Excellence in the Arts Award, an annual unrestricted $25,000 grant to support visual arts, photography, and musical theatre artists. [33]

Artwork

Art New Orleans featured a Longshore painting on the cover of its Spring 2013 issue and Vie Magazine featured her art on the cover of its May 2013 issue. [7] [34]

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Longshore painting Frida Kahlo, 2014

In 2014, Longshore announced a collaboration with friend and long-time client Blake Lively for Lively's lifestyle e-commerce site Preserve. [35] Longshore and Lively began working together at Longshore's studio shortly before Lively's site launched. [36] Later that year, she created a holiday exhibit for Kirna Zabete [37] featuring “Jingle My Bells.” [38] Kirna Zabete has 20 pieces of Longshore's work exhibited. [39] In 2015, Longshore was featured by Forbes on a list of 21 contemporary artists. [5] That same year, Longshore's work was also featured at the Cornell Museum in an exhibit titled “Bling: Art That Shines.” The collection included Longshore's large-scale portraits highlighting celebrity excess. Her pieces Audrey in Slipper Orchid Headdress and Subtleties Are Not Her Specialty were among the featured works in the exhibit. [40] In 2015, Longshore launched Artgasm, a direct-to-collector subscription program inspired by TuneCore. [20] [41]

In fall 2015, Longshore debuted a collection of satirical fashion portraits during New York Fashion Week. [42] [43] She became the first artist to secure a collaboration with the Bryant Park Hotel with a Longshore-designed suite featuring the collection of seven bold portraits of iconic names in fashion. [44] [45]

In January 2018, Longshore became the first solo female artist to exhibit at Bergdorf Goodman. [46] [47] As part of the exhibit, Longshore's work was placed in six different Bergdorf Goodman window displays on Fifth Avenue. [48] [49]

In March 2019 Longshore exhibited 37 paintings she created of iconic women in a one-woman show at and as a commission for the Diane von Fürstenberg flagship store in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan in New York City in celebration of Women's History Month. [50] [51]

In March 2020, as part of Women's History Month, Sprinkles Cupcakes featured Longshore's artwork on its limited edition White Chocolate Raspberry cupcake. [52]

In October 2021, Longshore created an installation for the Netflix premiere of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sex, Love & goop. [53] That same month, she debuted her new furniture collection with Ken Fulk at the Prodigal Fun exhibition, which also featured approximately 70 large-scale pop art paintings by Longshore. [54]

Longshore has also released two collections of NFTs. The first, [55] based on her book of portraits of women, ROAR, was released in January 2022. The second, [56] IT'S A MAN'S WORLD, focused on portraits of real and fictional men, was released in June 2022.

Personal life

Longshore lives in New Orleans with her fiancé Michael Smith. [7]

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