Tuesday, 16 December 2014

A Portrait Of The 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.

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.

As she grew up in the 1970s, her artistic skills blossomed. The photorealistic style of her paintings was welcomed among her fans and critics during that time, where picture taking was being assimilated into the artistic world. They welcomed her evocative, distinct style, which identified with the feelings of that '70s age.

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.

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.

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.




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