alison jaya mosher
about
alisonjaya@me.com
Alison Mosher is an artist specializing in oil painting, often combining cyanotype and beading with her painted works. Her paintings draw from her family archive of photographs to honor the ways that memories have shaped her, while reframing them to include the skeletons of loss that haunt them. They are self portraits of reflections on belonging and disconnection.
She utilizes the process of cyanotype, which physically imprints the photograph onto the canvas as a backdrop of truth, and sometimes "oil wiping," which involves quickly removing a layer of oil paint to reveal parts of a protected layer beneath. Both processes have hazy qualities and imperfections to question truths and withhold information. She aims to reclaim agency for herself within the narratives of photos, and broaden the truth of photography to include her own lived experiences. She creates burials to show snippets of a life and represent the preciousness of the final state of burial and remembrance.
Mosher graduated as a Painting BFA and Art History minor from Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art, and is currently at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in the Post Baccalaureate Painting/Drawing Program. Her work has been included in various exhibitions including Huntington Arts Council’s Exploration of the Human Form and Chicago’s Madron Gallery’s System and Dialectics of Art. She recently completed her solo BFA thesis show, The Moments We Keep, at Tyler School of Art.
She utilizes the process of cyanotype, which physically imprints the photograph onto the canvas as a backdrop of truth, and sometimes "oil wiping," which involves quickly removing a layer of oil paint to reveal parts of a protected layer beneath. Both processes have hazy qualities and imperfections to question truths and withhold information. She aims to reclaim agency for herself within the narratives of photos, and broaden the truth of photography to include her own lived experiences. She creates burials to show snippets of a life and represent the preciousness of the final state of burial and remembrance.
Mosher graduated as a Painting BFA and Art History minor from Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art, and is currently at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in the Post Baccalaureate Painting/Drawing Program. Her work has been included in various exhibitions including Huntington Arts Council’s Exploration of the Human Form and Chicago’s Madron Gallery’s System and Dialectics of Art. She recently completed her solo BFA thesis show, The Moments We Keep, at Tyler School of Art.