Seamlessly transitioning between painting, sculpture, and animation, Allison Schulnik (b. 1978, San Diego, CA) paints with a dense impasto and chooses subjects that meld theatricality with emotional vulnerability. Sourcing images from domestic life, nature, dreams, and childhood memories both real and imagined, Schulnik explores the murky and sometimes farcical terrain of nostalgia and the macabre. P·P·O·W will present recent paintings that expressing her life as seen through the red haze of Palm Desert, where she and her husband currently live, work, and raise their newborn baby, Tupelo. Schulnik also works in animation, a medium she has employs as an extension of background in dance. Schulnik lives and works in Sky Valley, CA. She has exhibited internationally at festivals and museums including the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. Solo exhibitions of Schulnik’s work have been presented at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles; ZieherSmith, New York, NY; and Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid. Schulnik's work can be found in numerous museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Santa Barbara Art Museum; Museé de Beaux Arts (Montreal); Laguna Art Museum; The Crocker Art Museum; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; and The Albright-Knox Gallery. P·P·O·W will present a solo exhibition of new works in Spring 2020.
