MEDIUM: Painting

STUDIO LOCATION: 11 at 6 Vernon Street

WEBSITE: alysonschultz@mac.com

Instagram: @ao2oz

Abstraction provides the expressive vocabulary for my response to the global, persistent conflict and violence, creating emotive landscapes. The genesis for my work is the urban environ, more specifically the night city, graffiti, demolition, fire, windows, fences and walls. Each painting under goes a history of its own. As layers are added, scraped, overpainted, built and rebuilt, the paintings evolve from depiction to a more personal, evocative terrain. I start painting with a specific site in mind, but over time, the paintings take different direction than initially intended. The journey is part of the process and excitement of abstraction — not always knowing what the outcome will be. 

Alyson Schultz creates abstract paintings and drawings from her Vernon Street Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts. With a background in printmaking, a BFA from Southeastern Massachusetts University and a MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, her postgraduate career has embraced painting on large scale door panels, making the experience for the viewer one-on-one. Alyson is also a founding member of the Brickbottom Artist Building, one of the country’s first and largest artist-developed live-work buildings.