Artist Biography
Alison Rae Campbell is a Michigan based multi-disciplinary artist. She holds an MA in Art Education with an emphasis in Studio Art from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Alison’s creative practice stretches from painting, printmaking, collage, digital illustrations, mixed media, sculpture, and murals to creative course offerings for adults and process play based art experiences for children.
In her Michigan studio, Alison focuses on water based mediums, acrylic painting, mixed media, collage, and printmaking. The fearless vibrant color, abstract organic forms, uninhibited lines, and repetitive patterns in Alison’s work deliver a sense of familiarity that gives viewers the opportunity to engage their own unique perception, personal memory, and wandering imagination.
Alison has been recognized as an exhibiting featured Artist, a Play Based Art Educator, and a Grant Recipient for The Art Crate, a program she developed that offers creative opportunities for the community to explore and develop artistic freedoms through art and innovation. Alison has shown in solo and group exhibitions. Her clients include buyers from private collectors in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Europe. Alison other big project is Co-Authoring and Illustrating Children’s Books with her most amazing mother.
Artist Statement
My Art is inspired by the natural wonders of nature. I enjoy playing with light through Texture, Layering, Organic Shapes and Color.
My Mixed Media work includes traditional mark making tools like pencils, charcoal, oil pastel, chalk, and paint. I also use tools like sticks, paint rollers, discarded paper, junk mail, printmaking, stencils, found objects like recycled packaging items, and my favorite, my fingers.
My goal as an Artist is to create an experience for the viewer that challenges their sense of wonder and imagination through a visual language expressed with vibrant hues, expressive mark making, and organic shapes. I invite them to connect and surrender to the wonders of nature through my unique creative interpretations.