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.
During the 1970s, her artistic skills truly began to blossom. Coming up of age in the 70s open-minded social climate, her photorealist painting style was welcomed among art fans and critics of the era- the era of the assimilation of photography into the art world. The welcoming of her unique style was evocative of that specific era.
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.
Her passion was always the motivation for working through all the growing pains of producing the miracle of her technical methods. This essential technique revealed the human, but mysterious works she produced. She might begin by looking at a photograph, or another reference image which would have captivated her, and possible draw by hand first, or paint a more realistic portrait. Her complex obscuring technique of the original painting was the final stage in her 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.
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.
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.
During the 1970s, her artistic skills truly began to blossom. Coming up of age in the 70s open-minded social climate, her photorealist painting style was welcomed among art fans and critics of the era- the era of the assimilation of photography into the art world. The welcoming of her unique style was evocative of that specific era.
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.
Her passion was always the motivation for working through all the growing pains of producing the miracle of her technical methods. This essential technique revealed the human, but mysterious works she produced. She might begin by looking at a photograph, or another reference image which would have captivated her, and possible draw by hand first, or paint a more realistic portrait. Her complex obscuring technique of the original painting was the final stage in her 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.
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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