Boston-based artist Alison Darrow (b. 1951) started as an illustrator, then studied painting at Bard College under Murray Reich, Matt Phillips, and Jim Sullivan. She has pursued an autodidact’s MFA ever since, exploring narrative illustration, relief printmaking, and ceramics. After more than 20 years in corporate deserts, in 2016 she returned to painting, exploring abstraction (occasionally derailing, digitally, into pop art). Carrie Moyer, Charline Von Heyl, and David Reed are among her heroes.
Curiosity, love of surprises, and humor drive her work. Her primary inspiration is her urban environment and patterns made by light, shadow, and reflection: inchoate and ineffable glories inherent in the everyday. Believing that our hyper-connected world has dulled our capacity for wonder, she aspires to reawaken amazement and curiosity. She has participated in group shows at Brickbottom Artists Association (Somerville, MA), Toe River Art Gallery (Spruce Pine, NC), ARTSPACE at Untitled (Oklahoma City), and the FPAC Gallery at 300 Summer Street (Boston); her work is in private collections in Texas, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
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