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Working in bronze, stone and steel for the past 15 years, artist Destiny Allison first fell in love with sculpting while playing with her son’s modeling clay during a moment of writer’s block and domestic frustration. Since then, Allison has focused solely on the art of sculpture. Dedication, tenacity, and what she calls “down-right stubbornness” have yielded her current success.
Allison’s work is exhibited extensively. She has won numerous awards and is nationally represented by renowned galleries. Her commissioned sculptures can be seen in schools, churches, museums, corporate offices, resorts, hospitals and government buildings across the United States and in Jamaica. In the past year, she installed major public works in Oklahoma and California, was featured in Southwest Art Magazine and received several awards of excellence for her innovative work in steel.
“Each of my works has a story behind it, usually stemming from life’s challenges. They address my relationships and the roles I play: daughter, mother, lover, friend, sister, business woman, consumer, artist,” Allison said. “The premise behind all of them is that if I am to know myself and live authentically and fully, then I must examine who I am in every context. Behind all of this is a deep desire to confront the art world trends that attempt to break down society, the individual and individual relationships, reducing all of the combined human experiences to their simplest and most banal forms. I deeply believe that what is human is complex, rich and beautiful and I hope, through my work, to help rebuild a framework for both beauty and the best of humanity.”
The eloquence of Allison’s sculptural language dates back to her childhood when art was constantly discussed and debated by her father, a writer, and her mother, a painter. Born and raised in Santa Fe, N.M., Allison moved to Boston after college where she worked as a freelance journalist while raising her three children. It was there that she discovered her voice through sculpture. Predominantly self-taught, Allison apprenticed at a bronze foundry in Massachusetts, and later taught sculpture at the Attleboro Museum of Art and the Fuller Museum of Art, both in Massachusetts. In 1997, Allison returned to Santa Fe where Winterowd Fine Art on Canyon Road currently represents her.

Sculpture how to tips

Your work can be polished, rough and raw, built in clay, carved in stone, cast or welded in metal, and it all comes down to the same thing. Does your work communicate? Read

By: Destiny Allison | 23/10/2009 | Visual Art

Dead or Alive

I am thinking tonight about Charles Bukowski, Janice Joplin, freedom. Freedom to write, to sing, to walk away. Bukowski said, "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way. An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." A friend said recently Read

By: Destiny Allison | 20/08/2009 | Visual Art

Time for a New Arts Movment?

innovation does not necessarily equate to good art and just because one can make something doesn’t necessarily mean one should. What is cool is seldom profound and technology can not substitute for authentic human expression. Read

By: Destiny Allison | 13/02/2009 | Art

Dave Hickey and a Walk in the Woods

I found myself thinking about the irony of searching myself and my life for the things which challenge me to produce works that have meaning, works that stimulate and provoke me visually, emotionally and mentally while holding to an ideal of allusive beauty and what I want and need more than anything else right now is a walk in a beautiful wood. I would gladly, at this moment, trade meaning for beauty. Read

By: Destiny Allison | 10/02/2009 | Art