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Helen Allois |
| Born in |
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1969 |
| Birthdate |
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12/6/1969 |
| email |
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olenae@yahoo.com |
| Telephone |
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310-457-9357 |
| Url |
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www.allois.com |
| Description / Details |
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Allois: Personages
Allois paints presences. Her figures manifest conditions, sliding away from personality and into mood. A particular character may present itself as a child or adult, man or beast, but its identity gives way almost immediately to its nuance. Mourners are not just sad they become sadness. Nudes cavorting with animals are not just modest they become modesty itself. Personages making their way through a landscape come to embody self-containment, self-absorption. This is real abstraction, a dissolution of the seen into the sensed.
The humanoids (and animoids) Allois paints exhibit many of the same distortions and contortions that we see in so much current lowbrow, or newbrow, painting. But instead of employing an illustrators insistent de 115 cr-iptive precision, so prevalent in newbrow, Allois engages the brush and palette of a modern painter, luminously impressionist, impetuously expressionist, oddly surrealist, providing her characters with soul even as she compromises their visual substance - indeed, by compromising that substance. She renders her figures vaguely, but they are not vague as ciphers for sensations and sensibilities, they must be fuzzy to the eye in order to be credible to the heart.
Do Allois characters and creatures tell stories? Of a sort they are active, always engaged in doing something. But before their efforts harden into 101 v-ents, they evolve into a dream state wh-ere purpose fades into symbol. Do they seem like fugitives from a childrens book, or a comic strip? They seem related to such storytelling formats, but resist telling such stories. They are fugitives only from Allois own imagination - or from her own dreams. Some seem so primitive, so atavistic, that they ring some far-off bell of familiarity in our minds. Some seem not simply alien, but related to the alien caricature that has suffused through our popular culture - the slight bodies, swollen hairless heads, huge slit eyes and pointy chins taking off from the de 115 cr-iption provided by witnesses to the autopsies supposedly performed on spacemen by the U.S. Army at Los Alamos in the late 1940s.
These figures, then, are others and at the same time are us. They dont simply constitute Allois cast of characters they stand in for any of us. The yogic construct of the soul is as a tiny homunculus seated or curled at the base of the heart. This must be the homunculus with whom, in many variations, Allois populates her canvases.
Peter Frank
Los Angeles
November 2006
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About Allois
Born in Lutherstad Wittenberg, Germany 1969.
Raised in Wittenberg, Germany and Legnica, Poland 1969-1989
Education: National Academy of Art, Ukraine, 1993.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
Juried Exhibitions
2008 - Allois works (monoprints) were sel-ected for inclusion in the MONOTYPE GUILD OF NEW ENGLAND National Exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum, in Attleboro, MA.
2005 - Curators Choise Slide Show Winner. Viridian Artists XVI Annual Juried Exhibition. Juried by Robert Rosenblum.
Solo Exhibitions
2009 - Icosahedron Gallerie, New York, NY
2009 - James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 - Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 - Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2008 - Icosahedron Gallerie, New York, NY
2007 - Montserrat Gallery, New York, NY
2007 - James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 - Nancy MargolisGalery, New York. NY
2007 - Icosahedron Gallerie, New York, NY
2007 - James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 - Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 - Montserrat Gallery, New York, NY
2006 - Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 - James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 - Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 - Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2007 - The Saatchi Gallery - Contemporary art in London
2007 - James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 - Montserrat Gallery, New York, NY
2007 - Royal Gallery, Glendale, CA
2006 - Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 - Montserrat Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 - Life in Contrast, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004 - Unity Diversity 2, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2003 - Unity Diversity 1, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2002 - Lankershim Gallery, N. Hollywood, CA
Projects
Fine Art Novel “THE BLACK GONDOLIER” by Fritz Leiber.
Fine Art Novel “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II” by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe.
Animation “THE BLACK GONDOLIER” by MTV.
Publications
MIDLIFE DRAMA by Irit Kedem 2008
ART News, September 2005
Artist Interviews Magazine 2005
Malibu Surfside News February 12 2004
Artis Spectrum vol.12 2004
Representation
RoGallery.com
47-15 36th Street
Long Island City
New York 11101
Phone: 800-888-1063
Phone: 718-937-0901
Fax: 718-937-1206 Montserrat Gallery
547 W.27th Street
New York
New York 10001
Phone: 212-941-8899 James Groth
Phone: 310-266-0422
Email: milesahead_4@msn.com
Gallerie Icosahedron
27 North Moore Street
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212-966-3897
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