Throughout her thirty-year teaching career at the college level, Allison taught myriad drawing and painting studio courses at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For the last twelve years, Allison has held a position of Adjunct Professor for a summer study abroad program, offered through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy.
Allison is presently a full-time artist working in an expansive studio in the Lincoln Warehouse next to the Kinnickinnic River in Milwaukee. She has an extensive national exhibition record spanning over three decades and is in permanent art collections in Germany, Japan, India, and Ireland.
Statement
My paintings celebrate the interconnections of past and present, imagined and tangible, that which is lost and what remains. I am drawn to the physicality and evidence of the traces of time. The coalescence of weathered architectural structures created through atmospheric conditions and the human touch are especially fascinating to me. Surfaces with a built-up patina of evocative color and gestural mark making, whether random or intentional, carry the visual and poetic resonance I seek in my paintings. While the fragments of ancient walls and fading frescoes found in my travels in Italy are a particular passion, the shifting images present in my everyday existence are often just as inspirational.
Most of my artworks are made with mixed media combinations that may include oil, beeswax, gouache, acrylic, powdered marble, dry pigment, printmaking, collage and a wide array of drawing media, As I build generations of paint in additive and subtractive layers, a palimpsest is revealed. I’m intrigued with the interplay of intention and chance in a free-spirited studio practice with no preconceived notions of what may happen.
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