Monday, December 15, 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.

She began her art education in the 1970s and ended up attending 5 different educational institutes. Four of them are in the United States, and the 5th one is in Italy. These institutes were UCLA, the University of California, Otis Parsons Art Institute, the University of California, the Italian one being 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.

She was inspired by many other painters, such as Agnes Martin, Paramahansa Yogananda, Robert Rauschenberg, Helmut Newton, Yayoi Kusama, Hunter S. Thompson and Dan Millman. They gave the very talented and young American female artist the motivation and influence, which evolved into her unique, recognised style. She learned how to adapt the images of figures or other subjects and how she would paint them. Naturally she evolved her own methods, and discovered the complex process which is still hers today. Her beautiful, mystical, but purposefully-degraded interpretation of her subject, always brings her own conclusion to the finale.

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.

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.

When critiquing the artwork of the very gifted American female artist, critics have most often considered it to be "abstract" art. In response to that observations of general art viewers, Van Pelt has claimed the abstract process as her way of essentially blending, or "merging" the tradition of contemporary abstraction with portraiture. The question of whether the figures in the paintings are either stepping forth into the tangible world or are they veritably receding into the depths of the canvas. The renown artist herself has never really replied to the particular question with any tangible or direct answer; instead, she sequentially leaves the answer up to the viewer.




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