MARLA ALLISONMarla Allison is a member of Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico. Here is where she finds comfort in making her art and connecting with family, tradition, and inspiration. She is a contemporary/abstract artist and mainly chooses the medium of acrylic paints. She feels that the use of water with the acrylic colors gives the canvas a life and lets it breath. Marla constructs and stretches her own canvases. She has been painting since 1994 by learning oil painting as her first introduction in the arts. Throughout the study with her first teacher, Mr. Lawrence Sinnott, she had been introduced to materials of tattoo books, design of buildings and life around her where she made her foundation in her own work. Later she found inspiration in the various art styles of Pablo Picasso, Freida Kahlo, M.C. Escher, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the geometric patterns of Laguna and Hopi pottery designs. Ms. Allison found the need of expression through art in her youth and continued her education at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. She graduated with an Associates Degree in three-dimensional art. While there, Marla was intrigued with all types of art forms and ways of learning them. She tried to absorb everything she could within two years and since has been finding her own path of inspiration. |
