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Allison Sommers: Potter’s Field @ Thinkspace Gallery

January 20, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Brooklyn based artist Allison Sommers (featured) has a new exhibition on at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, California. Inspired by historical wars including WWI & the American Civil war,  “Potter’s Field” includes Sommers’ signature style of miniature scale paintings composed of gouache on paper  with creatures, either employed as soldiers, beasts or nurses amongst, engaged in action in a darkened, war torn landscape. Some of the smaller pieces are housed in antique matchboxes. Sommers is also exhibiting some of her largest paintings to date. (from studio visit with High Fructose)

To see more visit Thinkspace Gallery or AllisonSommers.com.



Filed Under: ART Tagged With: Allison Sommers, American Art

Allison Sommers: Painting

May 8, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

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Allison Sommers is a Brooklyn based artist working primarily in gouache. She creates complicated and intricate worlds with a “sharp wit and a penchant for nonsensical combinations”.

“Abandoning deference for playful irreverence, Sommers draws on her interests in renaissance and baroque art, toying with staid motifs and trading solemnity for nose-thumbing whimsy. She delights in deconstructing the seriousness of historical tropes of art, and tempers sweetness with subtle touches of dark foreboding and sexual deviance.

Sommers studied early modern history at the University of Virginia, where she was able to legitimize a lifelong love of the historical narratives and themes of the Old World, much of which continue to inform her work. She currently works as an art director for a newsweekly in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she lives with her partner Gerrit and their hedgehog, Ludwig.” (bio from Thinkspace Gallery)

Allison’s current solo exhibition “Schlaraffenland” runs from May 7, 2010 – June 4, 2010 at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles, California.  To see more of Sommer’s work, visit AllisonSommers.com.




Related Books:
Pop Surrealism: The Rise Of Underground Art

Surrealism

History of the Surrealist Movement

Filed Under: ART Tagged With: Allison Sommers, Schlaraffenland, Thinkspace Gallery

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 3

May 3, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mix – enjoy!





Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Allison Sommers, Andreas Preis, Camilla D'errico, Dale Chihuly, Gilad Benari, Graffiti Technica, Jason Graham, Robert Amador, Tom Keating

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