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photo of the artist - Konya, Turkey April 2010
About the Artist gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg Allison Merriweather is a dreamer and a visionary. Her highly charged instantly recognizable style has gained wide acclaim among the viewing public. Reality is rearranged and transformed in her mind into intensely personal visions which she then transfers to canvas with directness, freshness and a "passionate uniqueness" as one critic put it. Obeying no rules but those of her imagination, Allison's paintings possess a mysterious poetry. Above all she is a masterful storyteller, putting elements within our grasp and counting on the viewer to draw the correct conclusions. Allison lives and works in Houston, Texas with her family including a boisterous menagerie of beloved pets. Her work has been exhibited widely including the Hickory Museum of Art in NC, Hurn Museum in Savannah, GA and The Art Car Museum in Houston, Texas Exhibition Information 1/2010 Ferchell Gallery, Dallas, Texas Solo Exhibit 3/2010 Graham Art Center, group exhibit 12/09 Art Car Museum Houston, Texas, Group Exhibition 11/09 Towell Museum, Group Exhibition 8/2006 Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina, Group Exhibition 9/2006 Farquharson-Mackenzie in Glasgow, Scotland 3/ 2006 Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Sirens and Serpents - New Paintings by Allison Merriweather 2/2006 Northplain Museum of Fine Art, CANADA - The Narrative Tradition in the Arts 7/2005 34th Annual Exhibition, Margaret Davidson Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa - Purchase Award 2005 The Hurn Museum Contemporary Folk Art, Savannah, Georgia - Group Exhibition 10/2005 Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, Toronto, Canada - Group Exhibition 2005 Artscape Baltimore, Awarded Best Visual Artist 2/2004 Mitchelton Gallery, Mysterious Landscapes and Hidden Borders Paintings Published in Magazines 'Lilith' Published in The Biblical Review October 2001
'Many Roads Lead To Heaven' Published in Art Alternative November 2003 'The Ministry of Truth' Published in Aarte Della Cura, Summer 2004 'New Sea, Old Fish' Published in New Messenger, July/August 2005
Paintings and Biographical Information Published in Books 2006- 'The Earthly Death of Diana', published in Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience by Mark L. Tompkins and Jennifer McMahon 2001 - 'Provocative Eve' page 18, biographical information page 32,33 - published in Revelations: The Visionaries by William. Flavin and Benjamin Goddard 1996 - 'The Illuminated Universe' page 89 - published in Fantastic Voyaging: by Thomas Beckett Crowell 2001 - Biography published in Stories of Hope ECLG Publishing, 3541 West 16th Ave Magazine and Journal Covers Berlin Kunstfertigkeit Presse, Berlin Germany - Title of painting 'The Ministry of Truth' Avant Garde Out West, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Title of painting 'The Golden Age of Wistful Thinkers' Art Primitif, Marseille, France - Title of painting 'NightFliers' My Table Magazine, Houston Texas -4 covers, Titles - 'Smooth Talker', 'Dinner at Vito's', 'Happy Hour' and 'Theresa and her Girls'. Recent Commissions This will be my seventh year painting selected by the Grand Wine and Food Affair in Texas. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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