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Allison Alford
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Born Miami, FL
In May of 2010, Allison graduated from the Masters of Fine Arts program at Claremont Graduate University. She has shown work in Berlin, Germany, Izmir, Turkey, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Georgia and Florida. Allison's work was in the 2009 UCLA Wight Gallery Themed Biennial. In 2011, she had a solo show at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Phantom Gallery space, Dblock Projects in Long Beach, CA. She was awarded the 2010-2011 Albert B. Friedman Award and has had the privilege of collaborating with professional artists from a variety of industries such as dance, visual arts and vocal performance. In 2009 and 2010, Allison was awarded the CGU Art Fellowship. In the summer of 2009, she participated in an art residency program in Berlin, Germany.
In her work, Allison looks at gestures used in relating with digital interfaces. Increasingly, virtual interaction offers presence, a sensation of texture, touch and movement. Every time we text or go online, we physiologically change our environment. She's interested in this dynamic as it occurs in the human body.
In both the video and performance work, Allison choreographs movements taken from a human's interaction with digital interfaces. Body movements from rituals such as martial arts, dance, bird mating, iPhone apps, laptop touch pads, Microsoft’s Kinect and Nintendo's Wii Console are incorporated into the composition of these pieces to articulate a multi-faceted relationship between a human and digital space.
Overall, Allison's work looks at ideas entertaining the question of what it means to connect (with living organisms, technologies, objects, spaces.) This exploration is a point of intersection in her collage, painting, video and performance work.