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.
As she grew up, her formal education in art began in the 1970s, and studied in various educational institutes. In America, at UCLA, the University of California, and the Otis Parsons Institute, and in Italy, at the 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 had inspiration and influence from many other painters, like Agnes Martin, Helmut Newton, Robert Rauschenberg, Paramahansa Yogananda, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Millman and Hunter S. Thompson. Their motivation and influence encouraged and inspired her, and she gradually evolved her personal, style, unique. She learned the way to paint and adapt the images of figures or subjects and the way she would treat them. She evolved her own methods through experience, and discovered the unique process which is up till today still hers. Her beautiful, mystical, and deliberately-degraded interpretation of subject, always came up with her own ideas to the process conclusion.
She developed her own veritable painstaking techniques, and her passion was often the motivation for working despite all the pains of producing her technical miracles. This revealed the human, yet mysterious works she came up with. She would begin by possibly looking at particular photograph, or another image or picture which would have intrigued her, and maybe draw using hand first, or paint a realistic-style portrait. The complex obscuring technique over the original painting was her final, unique process.
Of course, her works have been exhibited in galleries as the only artist in Europe and North America. Her unique paintings were shown in The Drayton Art Institute and Fresno Art Museum. Her creations are also in public collections such as the Armand Hammer Museum, Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Los Angeles County Art Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She now resides and works in the city of Santa Monica, California.
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.
As she grew up, her formal education in art began in the 1970s, and studied in various educational institutes. In America, at UCLA, the University of California, and the Otis Parsons Institute, and in Italy, at the 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 had inspiration and influence from many other painters, like Agnes Martin, Helmut Newton, Robert Rauschenberg, Paramahansa Yogananda, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Millman and Hunter S. Thompson. Their motivation and influence encouraged and inspired her, and she gradually evolved her personal, style, unique. She learned the way to paint and adapt the images of figures or subjects and the way she would treat them. She evolved her own methods through experience, and discovered the unique process which is up till today still hers. Her beautiful, mystical, and deliberately-degraded interpretation of subject, always came up with her own ideas to the process conclusion.
She developed her own veritable painstaking techniques, and her passion was often the motivation for working despite all the pains of producing her technical miracles. This revealed the human, yet mysterious works she came up with. She would begin by possibly looking at particular photograph, or another image or picture which would have intrigued her, and maybe draw using hand first, or paint a realistic-style portrait. The complex obscuring technique over the original painting was her final, unique process.
Of course, her works have been exhibited in galleries as the only artist in Europe and North America. Her unique paintings were shown in The Drayton Art Institute and Fresno Art Museum. Her creations are also in public collections such as the Armand Hammer Museum, Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Los Angeles County Art Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She now resides and works in the city of Santa Monica, California.
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.
