Alison Pasquini "Bloom #4"

Alison Pasquini is a visual artist and educator currently living and working in Connecticut. She grew up in Massachusetts and earned her BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014. Originally a watercolor artist, she developed a love of oil painting through her undergraduate studies. She completed her MFA in 2023 at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where her work expanded to layer acrylic, oil, and digital painting. Pasquini uses surrealism and biomorphism to investigate ecological concerns and create alternate realities. Her work explores our material relationship to the modern environment, and questions dualisms like artificiality and natural forces. Alison has exhibited at galleries and fairs in Boston, NewYork, Miami, London, and Rotterdam, as well as in private collections in the USA, Italy and France.

Artist Statement:

"In the series, Memento Vita, I revisited the tradition of still life through a contemporary lens. Still life hints at the connection between nature and man, displaying our command over materiality. Historically still life has also been an academic method of artistic training. Therefore for this work I have taken on a new process, painting both materially and digitally, establishing new skills by layering paint and pixels. Objects depicted include traditional motifs of flora and fauna along with the result of our materialism; waste. There is less cloth and precious glass and more plastics and disposable items. A surreal possibility, an evolution of material offers hope, one that changes our perception of natural and unnatural. In a future world, these paradoxes dissipate, plastic grows and decays, while nature takes back some control." - Alison Pasquini