Allison Miller's Art

School
Oil and Acrylic
48" x 60"
2006

Untitled
Oil, Acrylic, Pencil, Dirt on Canvas
66" x 60"
2013

Snare
Oil, Stick, Acrylic, Molding Paste and Pencil
73" x 68"
2015

Skytopile
Oil and Acrylic
48" x 60"
2010

Column
Oil, Acrylic, Dirt on Canvas
60" x 48"
2012

Morgan Yabeny

24 Sept. 2017

Painting I

M. Zimmer

Allison Miller is a Contemporary artist from Los Angeles who was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1974. She received he Bachelors of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design and her Masters of Fine Art from the University of California. From her time spent in Los Angeles is where her style was produced. Allison Miller uses abstractions in her work making her an Abstraction artist. Her style was influenced by Edouard Villard and Rene Magritte.

Allison Miller creates abstraction in her painting by using space and overlapping to create three-dimensional illusions. The pallet and technique she uses is based on the light, space, and flora of LA.  She uses a variety of material in her work such as oil paint, acrylic, pencil, tape, modeling paste and even dirt. She uses dirt and molding past to create texture in which she uses paint to loosen or open the visual. The paint is used to paint free hand lines and for transparency. She tries to push the limit of the paint in her paintings. The use of combining all of her material makes the piece abstracted but, also shows a small influence of Baroque paintings. All of these combine make her paintings very geometric along with surrealism. Allison quotes that all of her painting are not planned out. She goes along with her work organically.  

Work Citied

Miller, Allison. Allison Miller. https://allison-miller.net Accessed 22 Sept. 2017