Feb 5

Feb 5 ARTIST ALLISON ZUCKERMAN

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Allison Zuckerman is an American contemporary painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. We found her work from the recent Vogue Italia “ Animal Issue” and immediately felt we had to find out more about the artist. The artist’s surrealist work fuses elements inspired by Picasso, Cezanne and matisse with digital printing techniques.

Zuckerman's second museum solo show, "Pirate and Muse, opened October 27, 2018 at the Akron Art Museum. Jeremy Scott, Creative Director of Moschino, wrote the foreword for the exhibition's catalogue. - Zuckerman's figures are amalgams of body parts, clothing and background elements from artists [all male] throughout history, and Disney and other pop culture imagery."

Your greatest inspirations or influences?

I am primarily influenced by art history and the reality that women are often the subjects of paintings and sculptures but rarely the makers. I seek to re-tell art history within my work.

Tell us a bit about your creative process? Work you are most proud of, things you are looking forward to this year?

Currently, I am working on a solo show that will open at Kravets Wehby Gallery in February. The work will feature 8 paintings and a sculpture, all from a recent body of work that was published in the 2021 January edition of Vogue Italia. Each work celebrates the beauty of the animal world.

https://www.vogue.it/moda/article/zootopia-allison-zuckerman-gennaio

How has this year changed your creativity or how you see the world changing moving forward?

I spent 2020 stripping down my work, experimenting with drawing techniques, sanding, and erasing. I felt that it was similar to my personal life: no make up, no dressing up, feeling vulnerable.