Chinatown, New York
Wilder Alison
Vent Violet
GaaGaa is pleased to present Vent Violet, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Wilder Alison. Vent Violet represents Wilder's third solo exhibition with Gaa, and first in the gallery's New York space. Confounding orientation and drawing the eye in circuits through reversals across surface and suture, these pieces simultaneously invite association, encounter, and affiliation, developing upon Alison's dissection and rejoining of language — both visually, and theoretically. Wilder Alison (b. 1986, Burlington, VT) is an interdisciplinary artist who creates paintings by dyeing and sewing together large pieces of wool. Driven by the limitations of language to accommodate and build analog forms for transness, queerness, and self-embodiment, Alison’s works build, reassemble, and create vibrant visual constructions. Often presented individually, in diptychs, or triptychs, the work extends the notion of the medium of painting, and questions the idea of what a painting can or should consist of. Alison has been included in recent institutional exhibitions at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; Das Minsk Kunsthaus, Potsdam, Germany; and Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Gaa, Cologne, Provincetown, MA, and New York, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; Lateral Roma, Rome; Kaje, Brooklyn, NY; Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; and Fierman, New York, NY. Alison has also exhibited work with Gordon Robichaux at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY among others. Alison was a fellow at Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA twice, and has also participated in residencies at the Womens Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY; Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France; Joya Artist Residency, Velez Blanco, Spain; Clay Break, Fayetteville, AR; Triangle France-Astérides, Marseille, France; Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY; Fire Island Artist Residency, Fire Island, NY; and Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY. Alison’s work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic and The New Yorker. Alison graduated with a BA and an MFA in Painting from Bard College, and now lives and works between New York, Vermont, and France.