Allison Info 08

I call my art Ecocentric Expressionism. Expressionistic art that is nature centered. As the artist I am the conduit of communication. The artwork is meant to be a communication of joy. It’s about nature and about my love of nature, about how I’ve found deep nurturing, and healing in its presence. It’s about how grateful I am for finding such a love as the trees and the grasses and the rocks and rivers. The artistic expression comes from my emotional reaction to the awareness that the natural world all around me is communicating to me. It is communicating a total unconditional loving acceptance of the perfection of the moment in which I am apart, a concept that is felt as joy even in my moments of deepest sorrow and loneliness. My first goal as the artist is to be totally open to the voice of the natural world around me. I humbly ask the natural world to speak to me of its wisdom. I achieve this by walking with nature and being still with nature for many, many hours. My second goal is to successfully communicate the joy and wisdom of nature through expressionistic imagery. The human spirit’s natural language is beauty. Awareness of beauty and the sincere emotion of the human heart is our communication link to the voice of nature. When people smile and become happy and even a little excited when they see my paintings of the grasses and flowers, the berry bushes and trees, and the rocks and waters and skies, I know as an artist I’ve succeeded.

Technical Process

I sew the canvas into ridgelines to create a surface texture. Sometimes the ridgelines separate the painting into compositional sections, other times they are integrated into the imagery. Since I work totally from my imagination, the ridges on the blank canvas become my initial guide to composition and subject. I have always liked texturally rich paintings and the depth of color of oils. In my search for texture the under-painting has become integral. I build up layers of charcoal, gels, acrylic paint, earthen grits and micas to develop the imagery. When the under-painting begins to speak to me of the final composition I switch to the rich warm colors of oil paint to create the finished painting.

Condensed Biography

• Born 1957, Denver Colorado
• Life long Colorado resident, Denver/Boulder
• 1997 moved to the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado
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RECENT MAJOR PURCHASES & COMMISSIONS

• SanLuis Valley Regional Medical Center, Purchased/Commissioned Nov. 2005
• Kaiser Permanente Public Collection, Two Paintings, Purchased June 2005
• Dana Bennett Matthews Law Offices, Boulder CO, Purchased June 2005
• Kaiser Permanente Public Collection, Rock Creek Medical Center, Boulder CO, Two Paintings,
...Purchased February 2004
• Michael Sczekan & Co. P.C. Certified Public Accountant, Englewood CO, Purchased 2002
• Numerous private collections, nationally
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RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• Salida Colorado13th Annual Artwalk, Solo Exhibit, Laughing Ladies (CultureClash), June 2005
• Dairy Center for the Arts, Polly Addison Exhibition Space, Boulder CO, August 2004
• Parkside Gallery,127 West Ryus Ave, La Veta CO, June 2002
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RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• Summer Art at the Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot, Steamboat Springs CO, Aug 2004,
...Aug 2003
• Women in the Visual Arts 10th Anniv. Exhibition, Erector Sq. Gallery, New Haven CT, March 1996
• Colorado ’96 Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO, March 1996
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GRANTS & HONORS

• Women of Rothgerber, Lyons & Johnson LLP, art event, invited artist, October 2005
• El Pomar, Grant Recipient, Youth Visionaries Community Arts Project, April 2001
• SLV Rural Electrical Co-op, Grant Recipient, Youth Visionaries Community Arts Project, March 2001
• Change Inc. (Robert Rauschenberg, President), Grant Recipient, Nov. 1998
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SELECTED AWARDS

• Waldemarsuddes, Stockholm Sweden, Skapa 2000-talets konstfrimarke, Sept 1997,
...Honorable Mention
• Taos Arts Association Annual Members Award Show,TaosNM, June 1997, Second Place
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TEACHING POSITIONS

• Art Instructor, Alamosa Open High School, 216 Victoria Ave., Alamosa CO, Sept 2002 to Present
• Artist in Residence, Ortega Middle School Expulsion Program (SOENA), art therapy program for
...disenfranchised youth aged 12 to 15, Jan 2002 to June 2003
• Artist in Residence, Youth Visionaries Community Arts Project, a three-month collaboration between
...area businesses, Adams State College, and the Alamosa Open High School, August – Nov. 2001,
...Alamosa CO
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EDUCATION

• Architecture, Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder CO
• B.S. Civil Engineering, Fine Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver CO
• Art Students League of Denver

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"When people smile and

become happy and even a little excited

when they see my paintings

of the grasses and flowers,

the berry bushes and trees,

and the rocks and waters and skies,

I know as an artist I’ve succeeded."

Kym Allison

Kym's Work

"Pond Reflections"