Collaborations + Special Projects
2025
2023
2022
Everything But the Work
Started in 2024 by Ashley Diane Saldana and Karly Jean Kainz, Everything But The Work is a project focused on unveiling the everyday ideas that are behind one’s practice. With individual practices that are greatly informed by their everyday life, Saldana and Kainz created a platform that asks artists to dig deeper into the subtleties of the mundane, through their surroundings and routines. After seeing numerous platforms and sites that heavily focused on the end results of one’s work, both Saldana and Kainz saw an opportunity and asked, “How could we show someone’s practice without actually showing their work?” Existing solely on Instagram (for now!) Everything But The Work is an ongoing project of exploration and vulnerability allowing artists to share insights into their practice, but never their work.
Electric Collections
A collaboration with Karly Jean Kainz.
This is a collaboration between Ashley Diane Saldana and Karly Jean Kainz as an investigation of their individual practices, finding ways to merge them together through technique, material, color, and object.
This collaboration brought “Electric Collections 01 + 02,” as two investigations of play and experimentation for the two artists.
Electric Collections 02, 2023. Ball clay, kaolin, minspar 200, silica, darvan, nepheline syenite, frit 3124, wollastonite. Stoneware, blue, chartreuse, and white underglaze, fir. 20in x 3in x 12in.
Electric Collections 01, 2023 Ball clay, kaolin, minspar 200, silica, darvan, nepheline syenite, frit 3124, wollastonite. Mason stain: 6306, 6242, 6200. Stoneware, chartreuse underglaze, collected sea glass, matte white glaze, gold luster, white Bray-poxy, styrofoam, perlite cement. 19in x 17in x 16in.
Conditions of Control
This project is a collaboration between Ashley Diane Saldana and Karly Jean Kainz as an investigation between human interaction and technology in relation to the sustainability of plant life. Searching to understand the complexities of how the role of technology plays in life, “Conditions of Control” tethers between the controlled and uncontrolled, as evidence to the ways awareness and human connection are crucial components in the care of biology. Ceramic vessels shelter and construct a landscape of study, experimenting with various interactions of care by choreographing light, water, and sound to simulate artificial and natural environments. Some rely on human interaction while others are created through automation with technology. Each of these environments determine the treatments numerous plants receive, while others solely represent life without care that then in turn become neglected.
A Collaboration with Karly Jean Kainz.
