"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. She has recently been exploring monotypes, and relishes the immediacy of that process as well.

Alison’s work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, in person and online, over the years. Most recently she had a solo show at the George Bruce Library in Harlem, exhibited in Unbound and Unframed at Art Lives Here, Luminous Elsewheres at Westbeth Gallery, and Women Celebrate Women at El Barrio Artspace. Alison’s paintings are in private collections, in the States and abroad, as well as those of Kenneth Noland, Citibank, Prudential, and IBM.

She recently co-curated “Luminous Elsewheres” at Westbeth, and is co-coordinator of Fluid Media, a digital artists collective. 

She has been interviewed by the New York Public Library and Taint Taint Taint Art and Cultural magazine.

ART STATEMENT

"Nature stuns me with its unfathomable immensity. I am constantly drawn to learn from it, and am continually taking in new aspects that I hadn’t been aware of before, or that have new meaning for me. 

The paintings and monotypes become landscapes that I inhabit while working. Each piece surprises me, transporting me into its own visceral world.

When I am painting, wet paper and paint free me to dive in. I follow nature’s organic vitalities, relationships, colors, and patterns. Flow and constant change pull me forward. Rather than pictures of things, the artworks are a record of my engagement with the natural world, and with the process I am involved in.

Both the paintings and the monotypes are unique and irreproducible, and while I can add layers, I cannot change what has gone before. I relish the immediacy of the processes.

I love chromatic neutrals, and use the richness of those pigment mixes to explore depth. The colors that make up the darkness are so intriguing to me, and I am passionate about exploring both light and darkness.

I feel connected to something larger than myself when I am working, that everything is already here, that my job is to be present. Art making is what I do with the awe I feel."

RÉSUMÉ

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"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