Saturday, December 20, 2014

Portrait Of American Female Artist Alison Van Pelt

By Lucia Weeks


The famous, talented American Female Artist was born on Sept. 16, 1963, in Hollywood, in the State of California. Alison Van Pelt grew up in the city of Los Angeles, California, and her talents developed as she's growing up. She decided 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.

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.

Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in galleries throughout North America and Europe. The Fresno Art Museum and The Dayton Art Institute, are two of the galleries that have exhibited her artwork. Her artistic creations are also represented in significant public collections, such as the Armand Hammer Museum, the Jumex Foundation (Mexico City), and the Studio Museum (Harlem). She is currently residing and working in Santa Monica, CA.

At a distance, many of her images may first appear hazy, as if they may have been photographed through a mist of some kind. This alters as you get closer, and as you draw nearer, you start to notice vertical lines, and then weaving horizontal lines emerge.

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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