The Life Of Artist Alison Van Pelt

By Lucia Weeks


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.

Her formal schooling in art started in the 1970s. She studied in different schools in America and Europe At UCLA, the California University, and the Otis Parsons Institute in America, and at the Florence Academy in Italy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Critics of this talented female artist have labelled her paintings as "abstract" artworks. However, her answer to that opinion is that for most art viewers, her unique abstract process absorbs and brings together the traditions of contemporary abstraction and portraiture. It's up to the one viewing whether her paintings are going into the actual world, or are really receding into the main regions of the canvas. The renown artist has never replied with an answer to this perception, she leaves it up to each individual viewer to make up their own mind.




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