Born 1973 Washington, DC
Education
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY
Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC
Select Solo Exhibitions
2019
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
2019
Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely MD
2013
Graficas Gallery, Nantucket MA
2011
Sweet Tides, Thos. Moser Showroom, Washington DC
Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket MA
2009
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
2008
Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket MA
Hoadley Gallery, Lenox MA
2007
Hoadley Gallery, Lenox MA
Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2006
Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket MA
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Page Waterman Gallery, Wellesley MA
2005
Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2004
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2001
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Select Group Exhibitions
2018
CrossCurrents, Salisbury University, Salisbury MD
2017
Future Lovers, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
2015
Paper Prodigies, Sozo Gallery, Charlotte NC
2015
Human Botanica, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
2013
SaoHouse, Montreal Canada
2010
Two Person Exhibition, Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket MA
2009
Sanctuary, Egan Institutes of Maritime Studies, Nantucket MA
2007
Two Person Exhibition, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2006
All Paintings Great & Small, Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme CT
2005
Page Waterman Gallery, Wellesley MA
Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA
The Art Colony on Nantucket: 60 Years of Contemporary Art, Egan Institute of Maritime Studies, Nantucket MA
2004
Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA
Nantucket in SOHO, Studio di Modica, New York NY
Artweek 2004, Choral Arts Society, Baltimore MD
2003
Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA
Page Waterman Gallery, Wellesley MA
2002
Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA
2001
Featured Artist Exhibition, AAN Gallery, Nantucket MA
South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket MA
2000
South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket MA
Art in the Parlor, Nantucket MA
1999
Work, Work, Work, New Gallery, Nantucket MA
Art in the Park, Nantucket MA
Selected Bibliography
2006
400 Notable People on the Cape & Islands, Cape Cod Life
Beauty of Cooley’s Work in Eye of Beholder, Inquirer & Mirror
Arts Record: Cooley’s Azores Influence, Nantucket Independent
2005
Forty Under 40, Nantucket Independent
Alison Hall Cooley at Calloway, The Georgetowner
Landscape & Atmosphere: Alison Hall Cooley’s Intuitive Interest, Nantucket Independent
Recent Shows, Surprises, and New Directions, Yesterday’s Island
2004
Abstract Painting & Sculpture: A Perfect Pair, Inquirer & Mirror
Artists Making It Work, Nantucket Independent
2003
At Work in the Fortress of Mystery, Nantucket Magazine
Navigations Through Open Space, Cape Cod Life
Art Wharves – North and South, Yesterday’s Island
Tips & Techniques: Artist Studiology, Yesterday’s Island
2002
Making Marks, Yesterday’s Island
2001
Parsing Out the Planes: A Talk with Alison Hall Cooley, Yesterday’s Island
Refugees of August: Stand Out Paintings You Should See, Yesterday’s Island
Awards and Honors
2006
George Smith Award, Artists Association of Nantucket
2002
People’s Choice Award, Artists Association of Nantucket
2000
Charles C. McDougall Award for Promising New Artist, AAN
Juror’s Award, Artists Association of Nantucket Gallery
1999
Juror’s Award Artists Association of Nantucket Gallery
My work focuses on memory of spaces. Expansive color planes, shooting and falling lines, and etchings overlap and move within an underlying composition suggestive of landscape. Textures and values interweave to create a suspension of visual spaces reflective of memory construction. As color fields stack and unfurl delicate markings orient the viewer and provide a handle for the eye. This dislocation produced by plane and color is steadied by navigation of line.
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YOUR NATURE SOMEWHERE ELSE: ALISON COOLEY
September 6 to September 28, 2019
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Alison Cooley & Stephanie Weber
March 03, 2017 — April 01, 2017
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Alison Cooley & Kathleen Markowitz
April 10, 2015 — May 09, 2015
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Alison Cooley, Dragana Crnjak, and Robert Llewellyn
April 05, 2013 — April 27, 2013
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Harman, Cooley & Sabour
March 06, 2009 — March 27, 2009
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Alison Hall Cooley 2
February 10, 2006 — March 03, 2006
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Alison Hall Cooley 1
April 02, 2004 — April 28, 2004
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Alison Hall Cooley
November 08, 2001 — December 06, 2001