UPCOMING IN GALLERY ONE

Allison Hunter

Allison Hunter
January 17 - March 6, 2009

Allison Hunter is an award-winning professional artist, working and living in Houston, TX. She has worked in the medium of photography since earning her Diplome (MFA equivlant) from the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1990. In 1995, Hunter began working with digital image processing in combination with black and white photography, jewelry design, and other media at the Integrated Electronic Art MFA program at Rensselaer in Troy, NY. After earning her MFA in 1997, Hunter participated in international residencies in Canada, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Russia, and Latvia. Her photographic and installation work is in the permanent collections of museums in the US and Europe. Her work is handled by Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas; Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston; Blue Tangerine Contemporary Art, San Francisco; and Gerber-Seid Fine Art, NYC.

For this exhibition, Hunter will continue her exploration of zoo animals. The images are shot in natural light with analog film (35 mm and 120 mm) and then scanned into the computer and manipulated. By digitally editing out details from the background, the landscape becomes a surreal, eerie place. The vague backgrounds force the viewers to focus on the details of the animals in isolation.