Allison Schulnik. Home for Hobo Too

16.04.2010 - 15.05.2010

Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago / United States

The four paintings featured in Home for Hobo Too are slathered so thickly with paint that the term "impasto" seems inadequate. Schulnik's characters are a sorry group - hobos, clowns, losers, vermin, withering flowers - that, when teamed with her intensely expressionistic paint handling, result in images that are simultaneously anxious and dreamy, tragic and endearing. In the artist's words, these paintings "blend earthly fact, blatant fiction and material to form a stage of tragedy, farce, and raw, ominous beauty-at times capturing otherworld buffoonery, and other times presenting a simple earthly dignified moment...."

Allison Schulnik (American, b. 1978) received her BFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of Arts in 2000. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Unosunove, Rome; Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles; Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles; The Santa Monica Museum of Art; Alexander & Bonin, New York; Rokeby Gallery, London; Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel; The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri; and Bellwether, New York; to name but a few. Schulnik's work is included in numerous public and private collections worldwide. This summer her work will be featured in group exhibitions at CANADA, New York and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.

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