The sisters Holly and Ashlee Temple work in mixed media and generate small and large works on canvas and paper, as well as miniature three-dimensional assemblages. Their work often employs imagery culled from the iconography of diverse peoples, eras and beliefs.

While the Temple sisters often incorporate powerful images from various faiths, these figures and symbols are not intended to endorse religion in the traditional or conventional sense; rather, they are to meant to address our personal and collective relationship with iconography, mythology and the effects of time and culture on the sacred.

Collaboration, both in applied method as well as conceptually, is at the core of their work. The sisters find the implicit trust required by working in tandem to be the most interesting and integral part of their art. Their shared history and aesthetic emerges as a partnership on canvas. It is the sisters’ belief that collaboration - artist-to-artist or art-to-observer - is at the heart of the creative process. Their work deliberately reflects this communion.

Holly studied art at San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Art Academy and the California State University in Florence, Italy. Ashlee is a graduate of NYU and Yale. Both have spent a lifetime studying under their father, California artist Brook Temple (www.brooktemple.com) and divide their time between Washington DC and San Francisco. When apart, they work independently on the same project, developing separate but parallel designs that are consolidated only when they reunite in the studio.

Education:

Holly Temple
San Francisco State University, BA
California State University International Program - Florence, Italy
UCLA Extensions Sotheby’s Education Program - London, England

Ashlee Temple
Yale University MFA
New York University BFA

Up Coming Events:
Join us in our Washington DC space for Fall Open Studios
Date to TBD

Exhibitions:
April 2008
Open Studio
52 'O' Street NW Washington DC

March 2008
Women's History Month: Relics & Remembrances
Fountainhead Gallery, New York, NY
(This is a group show awarded by the gallery to six winners)

November 2007 - February 2008
Parris, New York, Philadelphia
F.U.EL., Philadelphia, PA

2007
Fall Fusion
F.U.EL., Philadelphia, PA

2007
Holiday Show
Studio 4803, Wahington, DC

2007
Six Painters,
Carbon 14, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Small Works,
Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Art from the Heart
An Art Show and Auction to Benefit the Tenderlion Childcare Center
San Francisco, CA

2004
Microcosm- small works by artists
Artisans Gallery
Mill Valley, CA

Fragmentations
Industrial Center Building
Studio 305/Open Studios
Sausalito, CA

2003
Crossings
Industrial Center Building
Studio 305/Open Studios
Sausalito, CA

Press:
www.dcist.com

www.uwishunu.com

A list of private collections is available upon request