About the Art

My work is evocative of the strikingly similar figures of women found in ancient cultures around the world. I want tho capture the fertile and life-giving power of womanhood. I have always been fascinated by the rawness of the body of our cultural impetus to mask the changing female shape through ornamentation and enhancement. In my work I want to manifest these bodies as beautiful and powerful without hiding them. I want to bead, paint , feather and bedazzle my woman while still returning to the earthiness of the clay, the realness of the body.
I love the dissonance between diamonds and the dirt.
My figures stand tall and strong with the unashamed marks of womanhood proudly adorned and celebrated.
I want people to see possibilities for themselves in my work: What would your relationship with your body be if you were celebrating it instead of denying it?

"Don't bend; don't water it down, don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

Misattributed to: Franz Kafka. Credit due to: Anne Rice

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Testimonials

  • “Now these can GROW!.... Rise Goddess”

    — Jerry Saltz Senior Art Critic NY Magazine/ former Senior Art Critic Village Voice

  • “There is an evocative melody that resonates through all of Alison’s work, that marks it as distinctive. Alison’s maternal sculptures with intricate patterns and textures reveal a competence that can only come from talent and countless hours of precision handwork. Her work exudes a quality that comes from within the soul and sparkles forth to delight and inspire. Her bedazzled clay figurines draw us, the viewer in for a closer look, to be rewarded by the intimacy in mood effected by masterly use of ornate pattern that lulls us to a place somehow slightly new and filled with meaning”

    — Meg Saligman is an internationally recognized American artist. She is best known for large scale murals and has painted more than fifty murals internationally, including several of the largest murals in the United States. Wikipedia