Alison Van Pelt
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist/Painter |
| Location | Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Introduction | Alison Van Pelt was born and raised in Los Angeles. She studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. She begins the complex process of drawing and painting an image, then blurs and rebuilds the oil on the canvas, accumulating and disintegrating, until the result is a beautiful, purposely-degraded, mystical evocation of her subject. Her painstaking technique, with its exquisite light and shadow, layers upon layers of paint, ambiguous, yet meticulous, brush strokes, coalesced by her discipline and meditative touch, brings out the best in her subjects. The paintings are revealing yet mysterious; they are not idealized, but humanized. |