In 1987 she received her MFA at the University of California, Davis, under the instruction of Wayne Thiebaud, Harvey Himelfarb, Squeak Carnwath, Mike Henderson, Manual Neri, and Robert Arneson.
She began teaching as an adjunct lecturer in the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University in 1991[2] and she became full-time in 2001.
From 2003-7 she served as director of the Visual Arts Program,[3] Aschheim's paintings and drawings are abstract and geometric.
[3] Recent solo exhibitions of Aschheim's work include "Lines without Outlines", “T” Space, (Rhinebeck, NY, 2017 and Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College 2018), Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC (2016), and Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin (2015, with Hanns Schimansky).
Solo museum exhibitions of her work include the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, the Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, the New York Studio School, and Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.