Alison Van Pelt
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Alison Van Pelt is an American painter. Trained in Los Angeles and Florence, Van Pelt is established as a contemporary artist whose work is informed by expressionism
, minimalism
and pop art
.
, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack
and Chuck Close
among them—would create paintings that appeared to be photographs. Van Pelt begins by referencing a photograph or other existing image from which she draws and paints a realistic portrait entirely by hand. Next comes the work of obscuring the carefully rendered image. From a distance the image appears soft, as though photographed through a mist. But as the viewer approaches the work, vertical lines can be seen, and on closer inspection a sort of horizontal weave emerges. One writer described the effect this creates on Van Pelt’s The Expulsion of Adam and Eve as, “so thick with paint and lines that it actually appears to have been applied to wood, not canvas.
In response to the observation that her work is abstract, Van Pelt has said, “It’s my way of merging the tradition of portraiture with contemporary abstraction. I’m interested in ambiguity.” A sublime tension is created in the contradiction between the crisp photorealism with which she first delineates her subject and the purposeful act of obscuring this subject, which ensues. Viewed up close, a grid of ambiguous color meets the eye, but with distance the viewer gains the necessary objectivity to discern the subject. However, even with this revelation, a question remains as one writer so aptly noted: “Are the figures stepping forth into the tangible world or are they receding into the depths of the canvas?”
The impetus for this creative tension has its origins in a visit to Paris in 1988. At the Beaubourg at Centre Georges Pompidou
, Van Pelt was captivated by the way Francis Bacon
had smeared the paint on the face of one of his subjects, and that same evening found a postcard in which the nighttime streetlights appeared as blurry lines. After she returned home to California, the memory of these two images led Van Pelt to experiment with blurring the paint on a portrait of a woman’s face. Her style had coalesced. Her technique caught the attention of Los Angeles dealer Robert Berman, whose gallery exhibited several solo shows of Van Pelt’s work.
In 1992, Van Pelt traveled to Florence, Italy to study painting at the Florence Academy of Art, where the ethereal style of her work prompted comparisons to the Shroud of Turin. During the two years she spent studying abroad, she showed her work in solo exhibitions overseas: the show New Work appeared at Galerie Paul Sties in Krönberg, Germany, New Paintings at Galerie Lauter in Mannheim, Germany, and Les Animaux Nouveaux at Galerie Vedovi in Brussels.
Van Pelt’s portrait of William S. Burroughs
welcomed visitors to Ports of Entry, an exhibit of Burroughs’ work held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
in 1996. The Beat Generation
hero’s portrait, which appears on the cover for his book, has been described as a ghost-like image. One journalist described Van Pelt’s portrait of Burroughs as “peering out at us with his trademark craggy deadpan, looking characteristically haunted.” A Parisian art collector, who also videotapes séances claimed that her paintings looked exactly like the ghosts he records.
and Mark Rothko
are among the artists who have exercised considerable influence on Van Pelt’s technique. More than one reviewer has noted that her portraits recall Richter’s blurred portraits of the infamous RAF members embroiled in the Baader-Meinhof scandal in the 1970s, but without the dark political associations. Nancy Burson’s composite portraits also come to mind. The line and grid work of Agnes Martin
sparked Van Pelt’s meticulous attention to detail in which Van Pelt places as much focus on each brush stroke as she does on a piece of work in its entirety. Van Pelt has said that Plato’s universal flow resonates for her.
The Eclectic Eye; Selections from the Frederick R Weisman Art
Foundation, Published by the Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation,
Los Angeles, CA, copyright 2004. Full page, four color reproduction, page 177,
with text page 176. 2005
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 26th Annual Benefit Art
Auction 2005, full color illustration page 12. 2005
Komanecky, Michael & Van Pelt, Alison. Alison Van Pelt The Women
The DaytonArt Institute, Dayton, Ohio 2004
Yalkut, Jud. A Tribute to Some of the Greatest Female Artists
of the 20th Century, A & C Visuals Dayton City Paper Weekly News & Culture,
April 1 6, 2004, pg. 13.2004
Rollins, Ron. About Face, Arts and Entertainment, Dayton
Daily News, March 14, 2004
Appel, Brian. Fall Contemporary Art Sales in New York, Art Critical.com, December, 2004, David Cohen, editor. 2004
Lassell, Michael. Sand Box, Metropolitan Home, March/April 2003
Reginato, James. W at Home House of Brad, W, October 2001
Sobieszek, Robert, A. Fight. Rusconi Publishing, Los
Angeles, California 2000
Stunning Painting, Art Scene, January 2000
Paintings, Arts and Entertainment, January 2000
Ochi Exhibition, Wood River Journal, January 2000
The Universal Language, dART INTERNATIONAL, Winter 1999
Artist Profile, Cosmopolitan, August 1999
Wiener, Nicole. The Gadget Versus the Soul, Exhibition of the Human Form, FORM, June 1999
Collins, Linda. Whats On, The Argonaut, May 1999
Flight and the Figure: the Paintings of Alison Van Pelt, Rusconi Publishing, Los Angeles, 1999
Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1998
Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1998
Campbell, Clayton. Alison Van Pelt, Ouverture, July 1998
Neusch, Walter. Geheimnisvoll, ArtHaus, June 1998
Star Artist, Los Angeles Magazine, May 1998
Art Auction, Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 1998
Condo, Anna and Jerryl Oristaglio. Ah Allen, A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Grenfell Press, New York 1998
Blue Paintings, ArtCONNOISSEUR, Volume 1 , Number 1 1998
Plattner, Anuschka. Ausstellung, Deutsche Word, February 1998
Man Ray in Hollywood, dART INTERNATIONAL, January 1998
Melrod, George. Femme Noir, World Art, No. 12 1997
Zappa, Moon. Earth to Moon, RAYGUN, November 1997
Ports of Entry, Exhibition Catalogue Cover, Los Angeles County Museum of Los Angeles County Museum of Art reproduction and text, pp. 154–158. 1996
Joselit, David. Burroughs Virology, Art in America, November. 1996
Garnier, Philippe. Burroughs, La Liberation, August 26, 1996
Art Auction, Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. 1996
Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, January 10. 1996.
Melrod, George. Openings, Art & Antiques, September 14, 1995.
Finch, Liz. Whats on Art, The Argonaut, September 14, 1995
Marx, Heike. Das Blaue, Stop, July 1995
Madigan, Nick. Illusion or Reality? Santa Monica Outlook, August 19, 1994.
Reviews, ArtScene, October 1992
Carlson, Lance. Open House, Artweek, October 8, 1992
The Book/Los Angeles, Kahn & Partners, Los Angeles, 1989
All American, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID, December 2010 January 2011
Alison Van Pelt, The Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, June 2006 August 2006
The Women, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, January 2004 June 2004
America: The News, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004
Paintings on Paper, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002
Fight, Ochi, Los Angeles, CA 2000
Flight and the Figure, Ochi, Ketchum, ID 1999
Figures, Gallery 813, Los Angeles, CA 1999
Blue, Gallerie Lauter, Manheim, Germany 1998
Eros, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1998
Motion, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1997
Les Animaux Nouveaux, Gallerie Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium 1997
Blue, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1995
New Paintings, Gallerie Lauter, Manheim, Germany 1995
New Works, Aschenbach Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland 1994
Recent Works, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
New Paintings, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY 1994
New Work, Gallerie Paul Sties, Kronberg, Germany 1993
New Paintings, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1992
Nouvelles Oeuvres, Ulla Lutz Studio, Basel, Switzerland 1992
La French Collection, Les Andelys, France 1992
Tableaux Nouveaux, Ader Tajan, Paris, France 1992
New Works, B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991
Under the Influence of Fashion and Finance, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2010
Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY - 2010
Homage to the Artists, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID - 2009
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA - 2008
California Art, Platt/Borstein Galleries at American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA
LA Art House, Beverly Hills, CA- 2009
Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA - 2006
Small Wonders II, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 2006
Portraits, curated by Shane Guffogg, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2005
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH - 2005
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2004
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA - 2004
Spike Gallery, New York, NY - 2004
California State University at Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA - 2003
Spike Gallery, New York, NY - 2003
Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV - 2002
Ah Allen, New York, NY - 1998
Track 16, Santa Monica, CA - 1996
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA - 1996
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 1994
Ader Tajan, Paris, France - May 1992
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 1992
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Castilla Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Chevron Corporation Chevron Environmental Management Company,
San Ramon, CA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Jumex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
Kayne Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
NASA, Washington, D.C.
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
NBC Studios, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Van Pelt Deitrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Michael Bay, Los Angeles, CA
Arthur Beale, Boston, MA
Robert Berman, Los Angeles, CA
Jeffery Best, Los Angeles, CA
Riccardo Boatto, Venice, Italy
Andre Boissier, New York, NY
Blake Byrne, Los Angeles, CA
Ted Chervin, Los Angeles, CA
Pippa Cohen, Los Angeles, CA
Sean Combs, New York, NY
George Condo, New York, NY
Dane Cook, Los Angeles, CA
Fiona Corsini, Venice, Italy
Sheryl Crow, Los Angeles, CA
Ron Davis, Los Angeles, CA
Donald DeLine, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Diana, Princess of Wales, Althorp, England
Jim Dicke II, Dayton, OH
Sante D’Orazio, New York, NY
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Cristoph Graf Douglas, Frankfurt, Germany
Steve Estridge, Chicago, IL
Peter Farrelley, Los Angeles, CA
Katie Ford, New York, NY
Jaime Frankfurt, Los Angeles, CA
Jimmy Goldstein, Los Angeles, CA
Steve Golin, Los Angeles, CA
Shane Guffogg, Los Angeles, CA
Alex Haaf, Frankfurt, Germany
Mariel Hemingway, New York, NY
Mark and Skye Hoppus, Los Angeles, CA
Susanna Hyatt, San Francisco, CA
Audrey Irmas, Los Angeles, CA
Philip Isles, New York, NY
Mitch Kupchek, Los Angeles, CA
Jeanette Longoria, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Rolf Lauter, Frankfurt, Germany
Eugenio Lopez, Los Angeles, CA
Eugenio and Isabella Lopez, Mexico City, Mexico
Bryan Lourd, Los Angeles, CA
Caryn Mandabach, Los Angeles, CA
Agnes Martin, Taos, NM
Brad and Annie Mason, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Billie Milam, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Morton, Los Angeles, CA
Jerry Moss, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Nicholas, Los Angeles, CA
Mme. Odermatt, Paris, France
Richard O’Hare, Chicago, IL
Richard Plepler, New York, CA
President Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York, NY
Pat Poncy, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Ruscha, Los Angeles, CA
Ronnie and Vidal Sassoon, Los Angeles, CA
Marc Selwyn, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Sennilson, London, England
Bob Shaye, New York, NY
Doug Simon, Pasadena, CA
Robert Sobieszek, Los Angeles, CA
Cheryl Tiegs, Los Angeles, CA
Sting and Trudie Styler, New York, NY
Paolo Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium
Hans Rothenberg Von Waldenvogel, Berlin, Germany
Chris Watts
, Los Angeles, CA
Thomas Weisel, San Francisco, CA
Irwin Winkler, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, CA
Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...
, minimalism
Minimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
and pop art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
.
Biography
Van Pelt was born and raised in California and grew up in Los Angeles, where she attended the University of California at Los Angeles. She came of age in the 1970s and her distinctive photorealist painting style is evocative of that era, when photography was assimilated into the art world. Painters—Richard EstesRichard Estes
Richard Estes is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters...
, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack is an American photorealist painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Flack studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953. She earned a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at...
and Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
among them—would create paintings that appeared to be photographs. Van Pelt begins by referencing a photograph or other existing image from which she draws and paints a realistic portrait entirely by hand. Next comes the work of obscuring the carefully rendered image. From a distance the image appears soft, as though photographed through a mist. But as the viewer approaches the work, vertical lines can be seen, and on closer inspection a sort of horizontal weave emerges. One writer described the effect this creates on Van Pelt’s The Expulsion of Adam and Eve as, “so thick with paint and lines that it actually appears to have been applied to wood, not canvas.
In response to the observation that her work is abstract, Van Pelt has said, “It’s my way of merging the tradition of portraiture with contemporary abstraction. I’m interested in ambiguity.” A sublime tension is created in the contradiction between the crisp photorealism with which she first delineates her subject and the purposeful act of obscuring this subject, which ensues. Viewed up close, a grid of ambiguous color meets the eye, but with distance the viewer gains the necessary objectivity to discern the subject. However, even with this revelation, a question remains as one writer so aptly noted: “Are the figures stepping forth into the tangible world or are they receding into the depths of the canvas?”
The impetus for this creative tension has its origins in a visit to Paris in 1988. At the Beaubourg at Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
, Van Pelt was captivated by the way Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon (painter)
Francis Bacon , was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds...
had smeared the paint on the face of one of his subjects, and that same evening found a postcard in which the nighttime streetlights appeared as blurry lines. After she returned home to California, the memory of these two images led Van Pelt to experiment with blurring the paint on a portrait of a woman’s face. Her style had coalesced. Her technique caught the attention of Los Angeles dealer Robert Berman, whose gallery exhibited several solo shows of Van Pelt’s work.
In 1992, Van Pelt traveled to Florence, Italy to study painting at the Florence Academy of Art, where the ethereal style of her work prompted comparisons to the Shroud of Turin. During the two years she spent studying abroad, she showed her work in solo exhibitions overseas: the show New Work appeared at Galerie Paul Sties in Krönberg, Germany, New Paintings at Galerie Lauter in Mannheim, Germany, and Les Animaux Nouveaux at Galerie Vedovi in Brussels.
Van Pelt’s portrait of William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs, Jr.
William Seward Burroughs III was an American novelist, also known as William S. Burroughs, Jr. and Billy Burroughs. He bears the name of both his father and his great grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, the original inventor of the Burroughs adding machine...
welcomed visitors to Ports of Entry, an exhibit of Burroughs’ work held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
in 1996. The Beat Generation
Beat generation
The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...
hero’s portrait, which appears on the cover for his book, has been described as a ghost-like image. One journalist described Van Pelt’s portrait of Burroughs as “peering out at us with his trademark craggy deadpan, looking characteristically haunted.” A Parisian art collector, who also videotapes séances claimed that her paintings looked exactly like the ghosts he records.
Influences
Despite the interest that the visceral nature of Bacon’s paintings initially sparked, in comparison, Van Pelt’s work evokes a more languid approach to her subjects… Gerhard RichterGerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in...
and Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
are among the artists who have exercised considerable influence on Van Pelt’s technique. More than one reviewer has noted that her portraits recall Richter’s blurred portraits of the infamous RAF members embroiled in the Baader-Meinhof scandal in the 1970s, but without the dark political associations. Nancy Burson’s composite portraits also come to mind. The line and grid work of Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin
Agnes Bernice Martin was an American abstract painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.She won a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998....
sparked Van Pelt’s meticulous attention to detail in which Van Pelt places as much focus on each brush stroke as she does on a piece of work in its entirety. Van Pelt has said that Plato’s universal flow resonates for her.
Published work
Paul Ruscha’s FULL MOON, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2006The Eclectic Eye; Selections from the Frederick R Weisman Art
Foundation, Published by the Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation,
Los Angeles, CA, copyright 2004. Full page, four color reproduction, page 177,
with text page 176. 2005
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 26th Annual Benefit Art
Auction 2005, full color illustration page 12. 2005
Komanecky, Michael & Van Pelt, Alison. Alison Van Pelt The Women
The DaytonArt Institute, Dayton, Ohio 2004
Yalkut, Jud. A Tribute to Some of the Greatest Female Artists
of the 20th Century, A & C Visuals Dayton City Paper Weekly News & Culture,
April 1 6, 2004, pg. 13.2004
Rollins, Ron. About Face, Arts and Entertainment, Dayton
Daily News, March 14, 2004
Appel, Brian. Fall Contemporary Art Sales in New York, Art Critical.com, December, 2004, David Cohen, editor. 2004
Lassell, Michael. Sand Box, Metropolitan Home, March/April 2003
Reginato, James. W at Home House of Brad, W, October 2001
Sobieszek, Robert, A. Fight. Rusconi Publishing, Los
Angeles, California 2000
Stunning Painting, Art Scene, January 2000
Paintings, Arts and Entertainment, January 2000
Ochi Exhibition, Wood River Journal, January 2000
The Universal Language, dART INTERNATIONAL, Winter 1999
Artist Profile, Cosmopolitan, August 1999
Wiener, Nicole. The Gadget Versus the Soul, Exhibition of the Human Form, FORM, June 1999
Collins, Linda. Whats On, The Argonaut, May 1999
Flight and the Figure: the Paintings of Alison Van Pelt, Rusconi Publishing, Los Angeles, 1999
Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1998
Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1998
Campbell, Clayton. Alison Van Pelt, Ouverture, July 1998
Neusch, Walter. Geheimnisvoll, ArtHaus, June 1998
Star Artist, Los Angeles Magazine, May 1998
Art Auction, Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 1998
Condo, Anna and Jerryl Oristaglio. Ah Allen, A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Grenfell Press, New York 1998
Blue Paintings, ArtCONNOISSEUR, Volume 1 , Number 1 1998
Plattner, Anuschka. Ausstellung, Deutsche Word, February 1998
Man Ray in Hollywood, dART INTERNATIONAL, January 1998
Melrod, George. Femme Noir, World Art, No. 12 1997
Zappa, Moon. Earth to Moon, RAYGUN, November 1997
Ports of Entry, Exhibition Catalogue Cover, Los Angeles County Museum of Los Angeles County Museum of Art reproduction and text, pp. 154–158. 1996
Joselit, David. Burroughs Virology, Art in America, November. 1996
Garnier, Philippe. Burroughs, La Liberation, August 26, 1996
Art Auction, Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. 1996
Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, January 10. 1996.
Melrod, George. Openings, Art & Antiques, September 14, 1995.
Finch, Liz. Whats on Art, The Argonaut, September 14, 1995
Marx, Heike. Das Blaue, Stop, July 1995
Madigan, Nick. Illusion or Reality? Santa Monica Outlook, August 19, 1994.
Reviews, ArtScene, October 1992
Carlson, Lance. Open House, Artweek, October 8, 1992
The Book/Los Angeles, Kahn & Partners, Los Angeles, 1989
Solo Exhibitions
If I Were Ed Ruscha..., Ventura College, Ventura, CA, January 2011 February 2011All American, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID, December 2010 January 2011
Alison Van Pelt, The Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, June 2006 August 2006
The Women, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, January 2004 June 2004
America: The News, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004
Paintings on Paper, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002
Fight, Ochi, Los Angeles, CA 2000
Flight and the Figure, Ochi, Ketchum, ID 1999
Figures, Gallery 813, Los Angeles, CA 1999
Blue, Gallerie Lauter, Manheim, Germany 1998
Eros, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1998
Motion, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1997
Les Animaux Nouveaux, Gallerie Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium 1997
Blue, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1995
New Paintings, Gallerie Lauter, Manheim, Germany 1995
New Works, Aschenbach Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland 1994
Recent Works, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
New Paintings, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY 1994
New Work, Gallerie Paul Sties, Kronberg, Germany 1993
New Paintings, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1992
Nouvelles Oeuvres, Ulla Lutz Studio, Basel, Switzerland 1992
La French Collection, Les Andelys, France 1992
Tableaux Nouveaux, Ader Tajan, Paris, France 1992
New Works, B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991
Group Exhibitions
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans - 2010Under the Influence of Fashion and Finance, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2010
Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY - 2010
Homage to the Artists, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID - 2009
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA - 2008
California Art, Platt/Borstein Galleries at American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA
LA Art House, Beverly Hills, CA- 2009
Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA - 2006
Small Wonders II, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 2006
Portraits, curated by Shane Guffogg, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2005
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH - 2005
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2004
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA - 2004
Spike Gallery, New York, NY - 2004
California State University at Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA - 2003
Spike Gallery, New York, NY - 2003
Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV - 2002
Ah Allen, New York, NY - 1998
Track 16, Santa Monica, CA - 1996
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA - 1996
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 1994
Ader Tajan, Paris, France - May 1992
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 1992
Public and Corporate Collections
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CABank of America, San Francisco, CA
Castilla Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Chevron Corporation Chevron Environmental Management Company,
San Ramon, CA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Jumex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
Kayne Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
NASA, Washington, D.C.
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
NBC Studios, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Van Pelt Deitrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Private Collections
Lance Armstrong, Los Angeles, CAMichael Bay, Los Angeles, CA
Arthur Beale, Boston, MA
Robert Berman, Los Angeles, CA
Jeffery Best, Los Angeles, CA
Riccardo Boatto, Venice, Italy
Andre Boissier, New York, NY
Blake Byrne, Los Angeles, CA
Ted Chervin, Los Angeles, CA
Pippa Cohen, Los Angeles, CA
Sean Combs, New York, NY
George Condo, New York, NY
Dane Cook, Los Angeles, CA
Fiona Corsini, Venice, Italy
Sheryl Crow, Los Angeles, CA
Ron Davis, Los Angeles, CA
Donald DeLine, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Diana, Princess of Wales, Althorp, England
Jim Dicke II, Dayton, OH
Sante D’Orazio, New York, NY
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Cristoph Graf Douglas, Frankfurt, Germany
Steve Estridge, Chicago, IL
Peter Farrelley, Los Angeles, CA
Katie Ford, New York, NY
Jaime Frankfurt, Los Angeles, CA
Jimmy Goldstein, Los Angeles, CA
Steve Golin, Los Angeles, CA
Shane Guffogg, Los Angeles, CA
Alex Haaf, Frankfurt, Germany
Mariel Hemingway, New York, NY
Mark and Skye Hoppus, Los Angeles, CA
Susanna Hyatt, San Francisco, CA
Audrey Irmas, Los Angeles, CA
Philip Isles, New York, NY
Mitch Kupchek, Los Angeles, CA
Jeanette Longoria, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Rolf Lauter, Frankfurt, Germany
Eugenio Lopez, Los Angeles, CA
Eugenio and Isabella Lopez, Mexico City, Mexico
Bryan Lourd, Los Angeles, CA
Caryn Mandabach, Los Angeles, CA
Agnes Martin, Taos, NM
Brad and Annie Mason, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Billie Milam, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Morton, Los Angeles, CA
Jerry Moss, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Nicholas, Los Angeles, CA
Mme. Odermatt, Paris, France
Richard O’Hare, Chicago, IL
Richard Plepler, New York, CA
President Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York, NY
Pat Poncy, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Ruscha, Los Angeles, CA
Ronnie and Vidal Sassoon, Los Angeles, CA
Marc Selwyn, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Sennilson, London, England
Bob Shaye, New York, NY
Doug Simon, Pasadena, CA
Robert Sobieszek, Los Angeles, CA
Cheryl Tiegs, Los Angeles, CA
Sting and Trudie Styler, New York, NY
Paolo Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium
Hans Rothenberg Von Waldenvogel, Berlin, Germany
Chris Watts
Chris Watts
Chris Watts , is an American inventor, businessman, award winning filmmaker and Visual Effects Supervisor. Currently the President of located in Los Angeles, California, he began his film career with in 1989. Watts originated, invented and implemented the Digital intermediate process in 1995...
, Los Angeles, CA
Thomas Weisel, San Francisco, CA
Irwin Winkler, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, CA
External links
- Alison Van Pelt Official Website
- Alison in profile against an “If I Were Ed Ruscha” painting in NY Times “The Insider” article
- Profile on L.A. Art House
- Dayton Institute of the Art: the Women
- OCHI Gallery Press Release: Alison Van Pelt All American
- The Shroud of William Lee: Alison Van Pelt's Portraits of William Burroughs
- Roseart New Art Week: Alison Van Pelt
- VC Art Gallery Exhibition -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha..."
- Ventura College Art Gallery Review - "If I Were Ed Ruscha..." by Alison Van Pelt
- Ochi gallery Artist Bio Alison Van Pelt
- Huffington Post Jewelry Designer Kathy Rose on Reality TV, Roseark and her Husband Rick
- Alison Van Pelt: A Painter's Touch
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Alison Van Pelt "Georgia"
- Chac Mool Press Release Alison Van Pelt
- Yogamatic 5-minute interview and yoga pose demo