b. 1998, New York, NY
Lives and works in New Haven, CT
Asher Liftin’s work celebrates technicality and process with an honest appreciation for and understanding of historical image making. A scholar of art and cognitive science—recently graduating from Yale with a B.A. in the former and B.S. in the latter—Liftin reflects on the relationship between image creation and image perception across his practice. In school, the artist explored how the brain generates meaning out of two-dimensional visual stimuli, realized now in his algorithmic approach to painting. Liftin’s work performs for the mind’s eye, enhancing optical truth with appreciation for the likes of Chuck Close and pointillism’s progenitors. Neutral tones, networked around and throughout Liftin’s carefully plotted dot matrices, lend the works tapestry-like tactility, further homeaging neo-impressionism and Seurat’s chief theoretical influence: tapestry restorer and pioneering color theorist Michel Eugène Chevruel.
Asher Liftin (b. 1998, New York, NY; lives and works in New Haven, CT) graduated from Yale University in 2021 with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and a B.A. in Visual Art. Liftin has held solo exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, New York, NY; Alessandro Albanese Gallery, Milan, IT; and Aisling Gallery, New Haven, CT. The artist has also participated in group exhibitions with all of the above as well as Venus over Manhattan, New York, NY; Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA; PALO Gallery, New York, NY; MoCA Westport, Westport, CT; The Graduate Hotel, New Haven, CT. Liftin created original artwork for Wes Anderson’s major motion picture, Moonrise Kingdom, and was a 2020-21 Franke Fellow.