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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.

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.

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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