Allison Strauss
Los Angeles, CA
strauss_allison@yahoo.com
Instagram @allisonstraussart
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About:
Allison Strauss lives and works in her hometown of Los Angeles. She earned a BA in Art from Colorado College in 2012 with thesis work in book art. She attended the MFA Visual Studies program at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 2017 on a merit scholarship. She interned at Peter Fetterman Gallery at the Bergamot Station art complex in Santa Monica, California, a gallery that holds one of the largest collections of twentieth century fine art photography in the U.S. She also assisted at the former Offramp Gallery in Pasadena, California. Her work has appeared in Exposition Review, L.A. Photo Curator, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Museum of Americana. She has written art reviews for The Portland Mercury and Artillery art magazine. (She is a writer as well as an artist.) In 2021, she was awarded a monthlong residency at Secret Land in Altadena, California.

Select Exhibitions:
Current (2023-2024) Viral Integration—UC Irvine Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, Irvine, CA
2023-2024 Open Call: Apophenia—Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Secret Land residency alumni exhibition—A Blank White Box, Los Angeles, CA
2022 In the City (online)—L.A. Photo Curator, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Vices (online)—Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco, CA
2021 Artist residency studio reception (solo)—Secret Land, Altadena, CA
2019 Dog Walker painting on loan—Silver Park Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Street Traces (solo)—Groundwork Coffee Co., Venice location, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Satan’s Food Court dark and devilish art—Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2019 Buzzsaw Industrial and found materials—Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2018 Gallery 43 held by California Assemblymember Laura Friedman—Adams Square Mini Park, Glendale, CA
2017 Groundcover PNCA MFA Visual Studies exhibition--Lodge Gallery, Allied Works Architecture, Portland, OR
2017 Surrealist Cafe (solo)--Hungry Heart Bakery, Portland, OR
2016 Spitting Image: Figurative Painting by Female Artists--Basic Flowers, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Literature for Life benefit--Pop Secret Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Senior Thesis Group Exhibition--Coburn Gallery, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2012 Senior Thesis Solo Exhibition--Cossitt Hall, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2011 Work displayed in Libros Schmibros pop-up store--Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006, 2007 Ryman Arts Annual Student Exhibition--California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Ragan Art Academy Student Exhibition--Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA

Publications:
2023 “Pattern and Beat” collage featured on cover of Slow Lightning, Volume II poetry anthology
2022 Selections from L.A. Ghost Wheels, The Museum of Americana, Issue 27
2020 Assorted collages, Exposition Review, Volume V “Act/Break”

Residencies:
2021 Secret Land, Altadena, CA

Awards:
2018 AD43 Photo Competition winner, professional category, awarded by California Assemblymember Laura Friedman
2017 Visual Studies Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR (attended Fall 2017)
2007 California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition for accomplishments in Ryman Arts
2007 Fabian Nuñez Speaker of the California Assembly Certificate of Recognition in Ryman Arts