How I started out:

AIOP began as a name and a kind of shield behind which artist Suzanne Walsh hid as she littered the world with re-purposed typewriters, bikes and other various “reclaimed sculpture” leaving her mark by abandoning her work in cities from Prague to New York to Los Angeles.

What I have been doing lately:

Over the past 5 years, Ashes In Orange Peels has evolved to become part pop-up gallery, fine arts collective, creative think-tank and record label with the release of Predator Instinct, a 6 track EP featuring musicians Joy Shannon and Will Morrison.
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My greatest love is to collaborate with musicians and fellow artists. All of my experience in writing, photography, graphic design, online marketing and gallery administration is applied on a daily basis to the business of art. I contribute to a number of Orange County based arts organizations including the OC Art Blog and ISM: a community project. Ongoing personal projects include Together Magazine and AIOP Recordings.

Presently I am working on a collection of (very) short stories about Southern California to be published through Black Hill Press.

Thank you for reading!

Sincerely,

Suzanne Walsh aka Ashes In Orange Peels

Résumé

{EDUCATION}
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Major: Design/ Illustration
Minor: Writing
Emphasis: Editorial Illustration / Advertising and Marketing Practices / Illustration and Fabrication / Non-Fiction Writing / Journalism
Graduated: 2003

{GALLERY WORK}
Saltfineart, Laguna Beach, CA, Gallery Director, October 2008 – Present
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, Gallery Director, april 2008 – september 2009
ISM: gallery, a division of ISM: a community project, Long Beach, CA, Gallery Director, 2007 – 2008
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, Gallery Administrator, 2005 – 2008

{CURATORIAL}
Ghost
January 4 – March 15, 2011
Client/ Location: Box Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Curator

Connective Tissue
July – August, 2010
Client/ Location: Notion Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Curator and Exhibition Designer

Sideshow
June – July 2007
Client: Los Angeles Ensemble Studio Theatre
Location: The Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
Curator and Exhibition Designer

Narratology
November – December 2007
Client: Los Angeles Ensemble Studio Theatre, Winterfest 07
Location: Santa Monica Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA
Curator and Exhibition Designer

OCCCA Member Show 2007
Client/ Location: Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Curator and Exhibition Designer

{SPECIAL PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS}
Experimental Music Concert Series
2006 – 2008
Client / Location: Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Co-Event Coordinator

First Friday Films
2005 – 2008
Client / Location: Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Co-Event Coordinator

Paula Wallace Book Reading 2004
Client: Design Press Books, Savannah, GA
Event Coordinator, Sales and Marketing Representative

Elvin McDonald Book Signing, Home and Gardens Tour 2004
Client: Design Press Books, Savannah, GA
Event Coordinator, Sales and Marketing Representative

{FINE ARTIST}
2012
March – May, Group Show, 4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA
2011
March – May, Predator Instinct, {Open}, Long Beach, CA
2010
July – August, Notion Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
February 1 – May 16, OcScene 2010, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2011-1999
various non-gallery, non-commissioned art “projects” in cities around the world.

{OTHER VARIOUS SKILLS}
Art Director, The Small Ad Shop, Laguna Beach, CA, 2011-Present
Textile Designer, Hoffman California-International Fabrics, Mission Viejo, CA, 2005 – 2008

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“Here’s what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,” said May Kasahara. “Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I’d really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can’t seem to do it. They just don’t get it. Of course, the problem could be that I’m not explaining it very well, but I think it’s because they’re not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they’re not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things.”