"Making artwork is what I do with the awe I feel about being alive."
BIOGRAPHY
Alison Cuomo is a New York city based artist who works on paper. Alison received a BFA in Painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
A lifetime of daily engagement with color and visual problem solving, as well as her deep and abiding affection for her materials, enriches Alison’s painting today, while providing a terrain in which she explores freely, giving it her all.
She is eternally inspired by the natural world, and seeks to deepen her connection with it.
She loves the receptivity and adaptability of paper. Her paintings are painted on very wet paper, with glowing color, gestural brushwork, and organic compositions.
Alison’s work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, in person and online, over the years. In 2026 she exhibited in
America the Beautiful?
at
NoMAA Gallery, NYC,
Big Spaces on the Small Scale: Contemporary Landscape Exhibition at
Adelphi University, in
Jewel Box, Bunni, NYC, in
Lucid Ground,
at
The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, Boston, NY, and
Enchantment at
the
The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY.
Alison’s paintings are in private collections, in the States and abroad, as well as those of Citibank, Prudential, and IBM.
She has been interviewed by the New York Public Library, Taint Taint Taint Art and Cultural magazine, Canvas Rebel, and Bold Journey.
ART STATEMENT
Nature stuns me with its unfathomable immensity. I am constantly drawn to learn from
it, and it serves as my continual inspiration, as I see aspects I hadn’t seen before.
I paint on very wet watercolor paper, using acrylic paint. I always use blended colors,
because that’s how I see colors in the natural world. The uncontrollable movement of
the pigments as they move and separate on the wet paper is a part of the process that
I love. I use acrylic paint, and once a layer dries, I resoak the paper and paint another
layer without disturbing what’s underneath. There is only going forward, no going
back, and I relish the immediacy of this technique.
I start a painting with a texture or color or movement that I recall from being in the
world. Rather than being pictures that represent things, my paintings are a record of
my engagement with the natural world, and with painting. I think of them all as
landscapes because I inhabit them while working.
I feel connected to something larger than myself when I am working, that everything is
already here, and my job is to be present.
"Luminous, fluid and oceanic, her paintings speak to flow and constant change as the essence of reality. Her works invite us to stop and contemplate that movement, to encounter it in a visceral way."
- Deborah Barlow