This talented and widely known artist in question was raised in Los Angeles, California. A Hollywood, California native, Alison Van Pelt came into this world on September 16, 1963. Growing up, she eventually decided she wanted to be an artist.
She began her art education in the 1970s and ended up attending 5 different educational institutes. Four of them are in the United States, and the 5th one is in Italy. These institutes were UCLA, the University of California, Otis Parsons Art Institute, the University of California, the Italian one being Florence Academy.
With this varied educational experience in the 1970s era, as she was growing up, the style of her photorealist paintings was applauded by her peers and critics of this period, where photography was being absorbed into the artistic world. This '70s age welcomed her unique style, which echoed the ambience of the whole period.
Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschen berg, Paramahansa Yogananda, Yayoi Kusama, Helmut Newton, Hunter S. Thompson and Dan Millman were some of the painters that influenced and inspired the young and very talented American female artist. The influence and inspiration of the aforementioned painters motivated her to created and perfect her own unique style. She began the process by learning how to utilize images of the subjects and/or figures she would paint. After gaining more and more experience, she ended up developing the complex process she still uses today. Purposely-degraded, beautiful, mystical evocation of what she works on is always the final result of that process.
Her passion was always the motivation for working through all the growing pains of producing the miracle of her technical methods. This essential technique revealed the human, but mysterious works she produced. She might begin by looking at a photograph, or another reference image which would have captivated her, and possible draw by hand first, or paint a more realistic portrait. Her complex obscuring technique of the original painting was the final stage in her unique process.
Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in galleries throughout North America and Europe. The Fresno Art Museum and The Dayton Art Institute, are two of the galleries that have exhibited her artwork. Her artistic creations are also represented in significant public collections, such as the Armand Hammer Museum, the Jumex Foundation (Mexico City), and the Studio Museum (Harlem). She is currently residing and working in Santa Monica, CA.
From a distance, the vast majority of this unique artists' images appear soft at first look, almost as though they were essentially photographed through a light to medium mist of some sort. But as whoever happens to be viewing one of her abstract and complex works of art, when they approach the artwork, vertical lines can eventually be seen, and on even closer inspection, even a sort of horizontal weave ultimately emerges.
Some critiques of this very gifted female artist have judged her paintings to be "abstract" artworks. But her answer to that observation is that to general art viewers, her way, her unique abstract process blends and merges the traditions of today's abstraction with portraiture. It is up to the viewer whether her paintings are stepping into the real world, or are truly receding into the deeper regions of the canvas. Why should the renown artist reply to this individual perception, it is really up to each individual mind to come to their own view.
She began her art education in the 1970s and ended up attending 5 different educational institutes. Four of them are in the United States, and the 5th one is in Italy. These institutes were UCLA, the University of California, Otis Parsons Art Institute, the University of California, the Italian one being Florence Academy.
With this varied educational experience in the 1970s era, as she was growing up, the style of her photorealist paintings was applauded by her peers and critics of this period, where photography was being absorbed into the artistic world. This '70s age welcomed her unique style, which echoed the ambience of the whole period.
Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschen berg, Paramahansa Yogananda, Yayoi Kusama, Helmut Newton, Hunter S. Thompson and Dan Millman were some of the painters that influenced and inspired the young and very talented American female artist. The influence and inspiration of the aforementioned painters motivated her to created and perfect her own unique style. She began the process by learning how to utilize images of the subjects and/or figures she would paint. After gaining more and more experience, she ended up developing the complex process she still uses today. Purposely-degraded, beautiful, mystical evocation of what she works on is always the final result of that process.
Her passion was always the motivation for working through all the growing pains of producing the miracle of her technical methods. This essential technique revealed the human, but mysterious works she produced. She might begin by looking at a photograph, or another reference image which would have captivated her, and possible draw by hand first, or paint a more realistic portrait. Her complex obscuring technique of the original painting was the final stage in her unique process.
Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in galleries throughout North America and Europe. The Fresno Art Museum and The Dayton Art Institute, are two of the galleries that have exhibited her artwork. Her artistic creations are also represented in significant public collections, such as the Armand Hammer Museum, the Jumex Foundation (Mexico City), and the Studio Museum (Harlem). She is currently residing and working in Santa Monica, CA.
From a distance, the vast majority of this unique artists' images appear soft at first look, almost as though they were essentially photographed through a light to medium mist of some sort. But as whoever happens to be viewing one of her abstract and complex works of art, when they approach the artwork, vertical lines can eventually be seen, and on even closer inspection, even a sort of horizontal weave ultimately emerges.
Some critiques of this very gifted female artist have judged her paintings to be "abstract" artworks. But her answer to that observation is that to general art viewers, her way, her unique abstract process blends and merges the traditions of today's abstraction with portraiture. It is up to the viewer whether her paintings are stepping into the real world, or are truly receding into the deeper regions of the canvas. Why should the renown artist reply to this individual perception, it is really up to each individual mind to come to their own view.
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