Allison Plastridge

Born and raised in New England, Allison Plastridge is a five-year resident of Singapore, following ten years in Hong Kong after eight years in Tokyo. She paints portraits of her immediate family, particularly her children, and preferably from life. She also has a series of on-going self-portraits in various media. She aims to create works that convey a sense of poetry of the everyday. Plastridge offers portrait commissions in graphite on paper and oil on canvas. She writes, "sitting for a portrait is a process. It is an active exchange between sitter and artist; a collaboration." In January 2019, Allison moved with her family to Singapore where she has developed a more personal and intuitive manner of working in “abstract” watercolors and ‘visual poems.”

Plastridge received her diploma in painting from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (1994) and her B.A. with Honors from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts (1987). Plastridge was awarded the Harriet Hale Wooley Scholarship from the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris (1992) and fourth prize in the Talens Figurative Painting Competition in Paris (1992). Her work was also selected as part of the Paul-Louis Weiller Portrait Prize Competition and the Pierre ...

l'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 1994, diplôme en peinture

Smith College, Bachelor of Arts, 1987
Dual degree in French Studies and Art, Cum Laude
Northampton, Massachusetts

3.23.17 - "Quiet Observations: Portraits & Still Lifes"
Open Studio
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong

9.29.16 - Open Studio
Fordham & Plastridge Studio
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong