Ashley Normal holds the understanding that “everyone creates and lives in their own reality.”  Her work stretches across various media and deals with: mental illness, memory, taboo, normality, sexuality, and gender. Working in various media she makes observations in what is already there, illuminating the bizarre and absurd in the familiar. Engaging the viewer in play, her work hides and reveals; illuminating shame, guilt, and the socially forbidden. She has been influenced by modern design, Dada, Pop Art, Surrealism, Confessional art, and the Feminist art movements.

Normal’s work has been exhibited in several solo and group shows in New England and beyond including: STUDIO 659, Whiting, IN; Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY; 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH; and Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME, the Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, the Bardo Gallery, Cambridge, MA, and the MAKE8ELIEVE Magazine, Chicago, IL & Geneva, Switzerland. 

 She currently resides in York, ME, where she holds a studio at Chases Garage Artist Studios.