Ashley Bickerton Creates Colorful Seascapes with Debris Washed Ashore

As the old saying goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” and in Ashley Bickerton case it’s completely true. While watching the waves wash debris ashore on the beach in Bali, where the artist currently lives and works, Bickerton saw something in the possibility of being able to incorporate society’s castoffs in his own artworks, but it took some experimentation until he hit upon a meaningful visual presentation in painting, which is now on view in his solo show at Lehmann Maupin in New York.