Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an experience which has greatly impacted the art she is best known for today. Currently Green resides and works in downtown Jersey City, where she creates large-scale oil paintings intertwining themes from nature, such as the forest and the tree. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the New York City area including a recent solo show at Susan Eley Fine Art on the upper west side in New York City. This exhibition, “Deeply Rooted: Arboreal Portraits by Allison Green” is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by noted critic Barbara Pollack. Green’s work is now included in the Brooklyn Museum/ Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art’s Feminist Art Base. The Feminist Art Base is the first online digital archive dedicated solely to feminist art.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/allison_green.php
EDUCATION: Green holds a BA from the University of Maryland with a concentration in Fine Art and Women’s Studies. She also studied at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy in 1995. Her classmates there included Guillermo Calzadilla and Jennifer Allora, who are representing the U.S. this year’s Venice Bienale.
