Alyssa Dabbs

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Artist Statement
By examining my painting process, paying particular attention to the decisions that I make whilst painting I have concluded that my work and style of painting lends itself to the ‘gestural brushstrokes’ and ‘spontaneous mark making’ that characterises abstract expressionist works (Tate, 2019). According to Tate there are two broad groupings within abstract expressionism; action painters and colour field painters. Tate describes action painters as those ‘who attack their canvas with expressive brush stokes’ (Tate, 2019). My practise is largely focused on the expressive marks that I make. I believe that my work shares similar characteristics with action painters. I study the work of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler and Willem de Kooning, alongside contemporary artists such as Fiona Rae and Julie Mehretu in order to analyse all aspects of painting.

Adolph Gottleib stated that ‘so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time’ (Gottlieb, 1947). My paintings are a reflection on now, documenting the unconscious, capturing emotions and feelings through choice of ...

2020 - 2021 | PGCE + QTS Art and Design - Distinction, Bristol University

2017 - 2020 | BA (Hons) Fine Art - First Class Honours, Loughborough University

2016 - 2017 | Art and Design Foundation Diploma Level 3 - Distinction, Loughborough University

2024 - Delights. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2024 - Anew. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2023 - Spring. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2022 - Prevail. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2022 - Spring. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2021 - Autumn. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2021 - Aestas. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2020 - Winter. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2020 - Transcendental. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2020 - Loughborough University Degree Show 2020. Group Exhibition. Loughborough, United Kingdom.
2020 - Spring Exhibition 2020. Fence Gallery, Stroud, United Kingdom.
2020 - Line_You've Crossed it. Group Exhibition. 5th March 2020. The Welcome Mat Gallery, Loughborough. United Kingdom.
2020 - Visual Impact. Group Exhibition. 13th February 2020. MTC Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom.
2020 - Subconscious Realism: Alyssa Dabbs, Solo Exhibition. Sewell Gallery, Radley College, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
2019 - Cotswold Christmas, Old Farmhouse Gallery (Zuleika Gallery), Charlbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
2019 - Age is Just a Number, Zuleika Gallery, St James’s, London, United Kingdom.
2019 - Art in the Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Un...