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Scott Ashley makes his conceptualism personal the some of the quixotic spirit of Rene Magritte, the late Belgian surrealist, may be found in conceptual artist Scott Ashley, whose work is exhibited at the aldo Castillo gallery.

The Apology, for instance, a found object art piece depicting an improbably hinged knife, not only reflects Magritte’s distortion of reality but also his sense of humor. Similarly, Ashley’s image, Aldo Castillo says, also humorously stands for the times when a person might like to kill someone but wisely holds back for a multitude of reasons. The work is somewhat …