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This work was done on Arches watercolor cold pressed 140 pound paper. It was done on my dining room table in our previous apartment in Hong Kong. Some of the themes I was thinking about include: aging as a woman, male and female sexuality, motherhood, childhood, nudity. I wanted to see what might bubble up spontaneously free of judgement or criticism. I don't mind that they may read as illustrations or sketches. I like to play with positive and negative shapes and spaces. I am greatly aware of the long history of ink paintings as I have lived in Asia for over 20 years. I would like to incorporate this history and awareness into my work in my own way.
2018
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8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
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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 David-Weil Drawing Prize Competition, both at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1991). Plastridge's work has been exhibited and is held in private collections in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Allison Plastridge writes, "my paintings come from a reverence for and a curiosity about the visual world and about the past. I make paintings about fleeting moments, when the present slips into the past. I come to each work differently, sometimes by looking at my collection of old maps and newspapers, tearing a page and gluing it down as collage. I take inspiration from wandering through the wet markets of the cities in which I live to see if a particular fish or fruit catches my attention, the iridescent skin or glistening eye; an unusual color, shape or texture. I immediately imagine such an image in dialogue with the torn page of text and, very spontaneously, I begin to paint. I work quickly to capture this temporality, allowing bare parts of the canvas or parts of the fish unpainted. The canvases are often small and intimate in scale and dimension. In my work, I strive for a more 'abstract notion' of the fish rather than a literal translation of the visual."
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