Aspen Mays

Aspen Mays (born 1980) is an American artist.
Born in Asheville, and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Mays received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her solo exhibitions include Every leaf on a tree at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; From the Offices of Scientists at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Concentrate and Ask Again at Golden Gallery, Chicago. Mays was a 2009-2010 Fulbright Fellow in Santiago, Chile, where she worked with astronomers who are using the world’s most advanced telescopes to look at the sky.
Art Papers describes her work as standing "in deft opposition to the technology we have come to rely on for answers, putting faith not in complex databases and rapidly evolving technology, but rather in the ability of everyday objects and materials to spark our imagination." In doing so, she "re-imagines the world around us, finding new possibilities in the commonplace."

Publications

• Almufti, Omar (September 2010). "Shooting Stars". Jettison Quarterly. 7: 68–75. 
• "A Celebration of Imagination: Aspen Mays at the MCA and Hyde Park Art Center". f News Magazine. March 2010. 
• "Interview: Aspen Mays". Bad at Sports. February 2010. 
• Smigasiewicz, Beatrice (February 2010). "Review: Aspen Mays/Hyde Park Art Center & Museum of Contemporary Art". Newcity Newspaper. 
• Ritchie, Abraham (July 2009). "Waiting to Know While on the Ground". ArtSlant. 
• Weinstein, Michael (June 2009). "Review: Aspen Mays/ Golden Gallery". Newcity Newspaper. 
• Olu, Amani (May 2009). "Chicago Standout Photography". Whitewall Magazine.