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.
She was inspired by many other painters, such as Agnes Martin, Paramahansa Yogananda, Robert Rauschenberg, Helmut Newton, Yayoi Kusama, Hunter S. Thompson and Dan Millman. They gave the very talented and young American female artist the motivation and influence, which evolved into her unique, recognised style. She learned how to adapt the images of figures or other subjects and how she would paint them. Naturally she evolved her own methods, and discovered the complex process which is still hers today. Her beautiful, mystical, but purposefully-degraded interpretation of her subject, always brings her own conclusion to the finale.
The passionate young artist went on to develop a truly painstaking technique all her own. She created revealing, yet mysterious paintings with her unique technique. She essentially humanized her works instead of idealizing them. She began her captivating process by referencing a photograph, or other image. She would paint a realistic portrait of the item after drawing the reference by hand first. Finally, obscuring the carefully rendered image was the last stage in her complex process.
She has exhibited in many of the galleries as a solo artist in North America and Europe. Her unique artwork has been shown in the Fresno Art Museum and the Drayton Art Institute. Naturally, her works are in important public collections like the Armand Hammer Museum, the Harlem Studio Museum, etc. She now lives and works in California.
When you first see the paintings at a distance, most of her images may first appear soft, as if they might have been captured through a veil of some kind, but this changes as you approach more closely. When you focus nearer, you begin to see vertical lines, and then lines horizontally emerge, as a sort of weave.
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.
She was inspired by many other painters, such as Agnes Martin, Paramahansa Yogananda, Robert Rauschenberg, Helmut Newton, Yayoi Kusama, Hunter S. Thompson and Dan Millman. They gave the very talented and young American female artist the motivation and influence, which evolved into her unique, recognised style. She learned how to adapt the images of figures or other subjects and how she would paint them. Naturally she evolved her own methods, and discovered the complex process which is still hers today. Her beautiful, mystical, but purposefully-degraded interpretation of her subject, always brings her own conclusion to the finale.
The passionate young artist went on to develop a truly painstaking technique all her own. She created revealing, yet mysterious paintings with her unique technique. She essentially humanized her works instead of idealizing them. She began her captivating process by referencing a photograph, or other image. She would paint a realistic portrait of the item after drawing the reference by hand first. Finally, obscuring the carefully rendered image was the last stage in her complex process.
She has exhibited in many of the galleries as a solo artist in North America and Europe. Her unique artwork has been shown in the Fresno Art Museum and the Drayton Art Institute. Naturally, her works are in important public collections like the Armand Hammer Museum, the Harlem Studio Museum, etc. She now lives and works in California.
When you first see the paintings at a distance, most of her images may first appear soft, as if they might have been captured through a veil of some kind, but this changes as you approach more closely. When you focus nearer, you begin to see vertical lines, and then lines horizontally emerge, as a sort of weave.
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.