Scott Allison – Low Doorway
Today’s featured artist is Scott Allison. Scott is a fantastic mixed media artist creating images that are dramatic, engaging and evocative. Just marvelous! My favorites are “view from afterwards”, “three rivers” and “memoria dellaToscana”. - ArtSweet
Imagekind Gallery lowdoorway
Copyright (C) 2008
This gallery is a sampling of my work done in painting, drawing and photography.
The paintings are done on wood surfaces I build myself and with a variety of materials along with acryillic paint most of the time. My emphasis is on the process of creation and destruction to create compositions reflecting the communication between myself and the materials I use.
The drawings started off as a personal project with the goal in mind to create 100 drawings within a year's time. I lost count within the year but certainly have created a good number of them. They have all been done using acryllic ink on watercolor or printmaking papers torn down into portable sizes in order to be transported by backpack to where ever I can set down to work. This body of work is a sort of symbolic auto biography.
My photography comes from a long time love for the camera. I find that the world can become vastly interesting and mysterious when isolating an image from it.
when winter ends
time buries spring weather
mixed media on wood
This piece brings together many elements and materials to create a tribute to the passage of seasons and cycles of nature.
invisible
ink on watercolor paper.
self portrait
view from afterwards
mixed media on wood. 24" x 36"
sometimes becomes an echo
some times become an echo
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for the rain
ink drawing on printmaking paper.
downpour
mixed media on wood. 16" x 34"
tree is made of playing cards and postcards cut to fit together. the texture was a result of a heavy rain before i gessoed the pannel. i decided to let it set the direction of the piece.
this is a relic of its own demise.
in the lobby
color photograph.
Inside lobby of Ace Hotel in Portland, OR waiting for pictures to process in the photobooth. Someone just set their coffee down on the enormous table.
passage between here and home
mixed media on wood.
Time, memories, and dreams are the subjects of this piece set in a vague suburban landscape.
china syndrome
ink on watercolor paper.
a washy landscape in fall colors broken by a single, leafless tree branch.
tripped
ink on watercolor paper.
This broken landscape is derrived from the many road trips I take to Los Angeles from Phoenix. The miles of fences and farmlands provide a rhythm to the vast space which is interrupted only by the occasional trees or filling stations.
Scarecrows Don't Talk
ink on printmaking paper.
drawing making reference to my early childhood in a small town in Michigan. The blurry quality comes from the wet ink being used on the un-primed paper.
three rivers
pen and ink drawing on watercolor paper.
drawing with memories of my childhood in Michigan in mind.
pennington road
pen and ink drawing on watercolor paper
a new plan for flight
mixed media on wood.
Having grown up with a father who was an avid enthusiast of the space program and then working for the Mars Space flight Facility at ASU, I have been drawn to the skies all of my life. So many of those early missions to space ended in splash down in the ocean. This painting was done with the idea of that in mind; where sky, space, and water come together to form an imprint on my mental landscape.
messenger 4
pen and ink on watercolor paper.
This drawing is part of a series I did in an attempt to create 100 drawings within a year's time. The bird immagery comes from my observations of the animals around my city as thriving scavangers. They seenm to know secrets to life that we as humans do not. In my work the birds are representative of the messengers of what is to come; a sort of liaison from the unseen world perched at the window.
messenger 1
pen and ink on watercolor paper.
This drawing is part of a series I did in an attempt to create 100 drawings within a year's time. The bird immagery comes from my observations of the animals around my city as thriving scavangers. They seenm to know secrets to life that we as humans do not. In my work the birds are representative of the messengers of what is to come; a sort of liaison from the unseen world perched at the window.
one last attemt to grow
ink on watercolor paper.
Immaginary landscape with a sapling of a tree stretches out from the ground into the barren dessert at sunset.
memoria dellaToscana
ink on watercolor paper.
tuscan landscape from the Chianti region done after returning to the states.
thedryair
ink on watercolor paper.
drawing made of parts of several experiences I have had with my older daughter. The frog was found on a bike ride behind Mesa Community College...
canopy
color photograph.
interior of a small tree at the japanese garden in Portland, OR.
pioneer square
once sleep the dreams of kings
mixed media on wood.
layer of paint and collage used to create a fractured landscape of castles and hovels.
wash it away
digital collage.
I made this image from a combination of things I have drawn and photos I have taken with my camera phone.
probably finished
digital collage.
I creatd this image from a mixure of drawings, photographs and scanned objects from around my work space.
