allison stewart - artist info
Allison Stewart has gained national recognition for her paintings expressing the complex and disturbing dialogue between man and nature. Trained as a biologist, Stewart is inspired by increasingly fragile environments and the ultimate interconnectedness of all living things. She uses layers of color, light, form and texture to address issues of beauty and loss, time and transformation. Residing somewhere between realism and abstraction, the paintings become visual diaries upon which Stewart records her responses to the threatened landscape.
Allison Stewart has exhibited extensively throughout the United States. Her work is included in many public, corporate and private collections, including the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Historic New Orleans Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Texaco, Freeport McMoRan, Price Waterhouse Corp., Chase Manhattan Bank, ARCO, American Express, Sun Bank of Florida, Pan American Life, and the Pensacola Museum of Art. She is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, Kathryn Markel Gallery in New York, David Floria Gallery in Aspen, Gail Severn Gallery in Sun Valley, and Sandy Carson Gallery in Denver.
Among the awards Stewart has received are an individual artist fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts in 1988, an individual artist grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in 1997, and the Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation in 1995. She has also been awarded an Artist in Residence position at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado.
In 1998, Stewart co-founded KID smART with her husband, Campbell Hutchinson. KID smART is a Louisiana 501.c.3 non-profit organization to teach under resourced children in New Orleans important life lessons through hands on art activities in the visual and performing arts www.kidsmart.org.
Stewart has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of the Arts Policy Committee for the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center. She also has served on the Board of Directors for the Entergy Arts Business Center at the Arts Council of New Orleans.
Stewart holds a B. S. in Biology from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL and an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans. She has served on the faculty of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, Loyola University, Delgado Community College, Aspen Museum of Art and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. She maintains studios in New Orleans and in Snowmass Village, CO.