BIO

Alison lives in Nashville, Tennessee and has been a full time artist since 2016. As a teen, Alison studied art at Rochester Institute's School of Craft, and the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a Master's in Advertising, and pursued careers in marketing and teaching. By 2016 Alison married and moved to Stuttgart, Germany where she lived for 3 years and immersed herself in European encaustics from 2016-2019. She traveled extensively studying with artists in many countries and worked in a sculpture atelier with Birgit Feil in Stuttgart.

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Alison has exhibited in the US and Europe, has work in collections at Vanderbilt University, John Wesley Powell Museum in Utah, and has authored articles about encaustic wax. Her work was on 10 Nashville billboards, on the cover of Wax Fusion magazine, and has won many awards. In 2023-2024 Alison's "FLY GIRLS" portraits will be at the Nashville airport and travel to museums across the U.S., returning to Nashville for a solo exhibition at the Customs House Museum in October 2024.​

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Artist Statement- abstracts

I am interested in exploring the materiality of things and in relationship with one another. There is meaning in old materials, and with man-made materials which have fascinating properties. I enjoy finding ways to combine the old with the new. My abstract wall sculpture is born out of my frustration with non sustainable packaging. I hope the viewer finds comfort in their patterns and forms, and that they spark curiosity about these man-made materials.