Alison Van Pelt x FERRARI | Expo Chicago 2024

ALISON VAN PELT

APRIL 11-14, 2024

x FERRARI

EXPO Chicago 2024 | Booth 258

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Thursday, April 11 | 12:00pm – 9pm

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Thursday, April 11 | 6:00pm – 9pm

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Friday, April 12 | 11am – 7pm

Saturday, April 13 | 11am – 7pm

Sunday, Apirl 14 | 11am – 6pm

Alison Van Pelt was born and raised in Los Angeles. She studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Raised in the open-minded climate of 1970’s Los Angeles, she has been in uenced by such disparate sources as Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Paramahansa Yogananda, Helmut Newton, Dan Millman, Yayoi Kusama and Hunter S. Thompson (just to name a few). The subjects of her paintings range from animals to prize ghters to celebrities, spiritual leaders, Native American warriors and heads of state. Utilizing found images of these gures, she begins the complex process of drawing and painting a classical portrait, then blurring and rebuilding the oil on the canvas, accumulating and disintegrating, until the result is a beautiful, purposely-degraded, mystical evocation of her subject. Her painstaking technique, with its exquisite light and shadow, layers upon layers of paint, ambiguous, yet meticulous, brush strokes, coalesced by her discipline and meditative touch, brings out the best in her subjects. The paintings are revealing yet mysterious; they are not idealized, but humanized.

Oil on canvas

16 x 20 inches

$15,000.00

Ferrari Hypercar, 2023

Oil on canvas

48 x 60 inches

$55,000.00

Ferrari 296 GTB , 2024

The need to work fast to move the paint around till it takes on another life keeps Alison up for 24 to 48 hours working on a piece. She begins in the morning, works all day and all night, and continues into the next day. She doesn’t prefer to push through sleep deprivation, but it’s the only way to achieve the blurred e ect she creates before the paint dries to a sticky stubbornness.

She begins by drawing a portrait of notable subjects. After drawing and painting a classical portrait, she blurs and rebuilds the image with oil on canvas, adding and disintegrating paint until she reaches her desired e ect. The result is a beautiful, purposely degraded, mystical evocation of her subject. Her painstaking technique, with its exquisite light and shadow, layers upon layers of paint, ambiguous yet meticulous brushstrokes, coalesced by her discipline and meditative touch, brings out the best in her subjects.

Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches

$20,000.00

Ferrari 250, 2023

Oil on canvas

16 x 20 inches

$15,000.00

Ferrari 812 GTB , 2024

“From a distance, the image appears blurred, so viewers are forced to complete the image, and everyone is going to ll in the blanks di erently, and that makes for an interesting conversation,” Van Pelt said. “I feel I’ve hit a new re nement,” she said. “Some almost look machine-made because they’re so straight. There’s just a neness to them, and there was such an ease. My body’s conditioned to these brushstrokes, and I just found an ease in the application. It’s almost like the paintings were just happening, and I was helping them happen.”

- Aspen Times