Sophia Allison (MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; BFA, East Carolina University; AFA Brevard College) is a visual artist and educator. She works in a variety of media including sculpture, drawing, and papermaking. Ms. Allison’s work has been shown in exhibitions within the U.S and abroad including France, Seoul, Korea, the Palm Springs Art Fair, the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles International Airport, the Morgan Conservatory (OH), Craft Contemporary (LA), AMcE Creative Arts (Seattle) and Brevard College, NC. In 2017, she was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Ms. Allison's art has been featured in publications including New American Paintings (cover), the Los Angeles Times, Artillery Magazine, Artscene and MAKE magazine. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

I make marker and pen drawings on paper inspired by specific landscapes, time spent observing plant life cycles in my garden, walks around my neighborhood in Los Angeles and my hometown in Western North Carolina near the Blue Ridge mountains. I am also inspired by domestic textiles, quilts, and fabric patterns. I fold my experiences of observing and occupying these outdoor spaces with my time spent indoors and as an educator, the repetition of domestic tasks and teaching practices that I perform. In many ways, the spaces where I live, work and make art are the same. I am interested in creating a unique visual language through mark-making- using it as a specific local dialect but also as a universal language, not unlike how a lay person would describe both the physical and emotional characteristics of a tree, plant or any vegetation. I depict the slow and low drama that occurs in my neighborhood within nature and use my drawings to capture distant and recent memories, noting the constant of change and slowing down of time by creating emotive moments through landscape imagery.

Exhibitions:

Dream Machine