Community | Wednesday, April 24 | 10:00 AM | FREE
This week’s Social Club will be in FUSION | The Cell, and will feature Visual Artist Alison Green. She will be sharing her amazing experience as an artist-in-residence in Zion National Park along with her artistic process. Casual conversation can continue at Novel Point Coffee from 11:00–11:30. Social Club is FREE of charge and full of LIFE.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
ABOUT ALISON GREEN
Alison grew up in an outdoorsy, nature-loving family in Calgary, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. After traveling around the world for several years, she earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing and an MA in Art Therapy. After working in outdoor experiential education and as an art therapist, Alison taught art at a leading college preparatory school for almost twenty years in New Mexico. She has a deep appreciation for the transformative and healing power of both nature and art.
Alison moved to Springdale, Utah, in 2022 so she could live by Zion, make art, and explore the desert Southwest. She was the Artist in Residence at Zion National Park in the Fall of 2023. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums and is in private collections across the United States and Canada.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My encaustic and mixed media paintings are nature-based abstractions exploring the elegant interconnectivity of all living things. Using encaustic, oils, collage, and drawing, I merge representational forms with abstract elements. Plants, trees, birds, and animals have long served as symbols and archetypes in the human imagination, and my creative work strives to share the concept of Biophilia, the innate human love of nature, as described by biologist E.O. Wilson. Using a varied and organic process with media, technique, and subject matter, there's a fluid evolution of themes and iconography in my work. I seek a poetic middle ground, where elements and references become abstract, whisper suggestions, and transition into a mysterious realm: nuanced, intriguing, unknown.