BIO

Alison comes to Nashville via New York, Austin, and Stuttgart, Germany where she lived and immersed herself in European encaustics, German expressionism, and ceramics from 2016-2019. She traveled extensively across Europe studying with artists in several countries. She worked in a sculpture atelier with Birgit Feil, and was invited to membership in Stuttgarter Kunstlerbund, the oldest art guild in Germany. As a teen Alison studied fine craft and pottery at Rochester Institute's School of Craft before enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a Master's in Advertising. She worked in marketing and teaching, and in 2012 founded "Ms. Biz Youth Entrepreneurs." a STEM/Maker education initiative teaching creative coding & entrepreneurship to kids. In 2016 she moved to Germany and became a full time artist.

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Alison has exhibited in the US and Europe in galleries and museums, at Vanderbilt University, and has authored articles about encaustic wax. Her work was recently on 10 Nashville billboards, on the cover of Wax Fusion magazine, and she was invited to teach and speak at the International Encaustic Association's National conference.​

Alison combines organic, ancient materials such as encaustic and clay, with new hi-tech textiles and construction materials. Her abstracts combine encaustic with textiles, paper, clay, tar, lime putty and shellac. Alison takes a maker-centered, experimental approach, learning by tinkering with nontraditional media. She is inspired by abstract artist Mark Bradford, "If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it."

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Artist Statement

I am interested in exploring the materiality and dimensionality of things and in relationship with one another. There is meaning in old materials, and also with new man-made materials which have fascinating properties. I find beauty and comfort in organic, ancient mediums such as encaustic and clay; and am absolutely sparked when I discover ways to combine the old with the new. That symbiosis, when it works, is absolute harmony. My new abstract wall sculpture is born out of frustration with non sustainable packaging. It is my hope that the viewer finds comfort in the patterns, form, and tactile nature of my works, and that they spark curiosity about the sustainability of man-made materials.