STATEMENT
I create maximalist collages with sourced, drawn, and painted elements. My process involves cultivating and clipping bits of paper from old magazines and historical mass media. Isolated from their context, the clippings become hieroglyphic characters that I amalgamate into novel narratives. They invite the viewer to reach into their backlog of personal semiotics to expose meaning.
Many of my pieces are my self-pontifications on abstractions of contemporary “Americana.” They’re epigrammatic cultural dialectics interlaced with visual double entendres.
They examine facets of sexuality and gender, religion and mysticism, cultural and personal identity.
ABOUT
Allison Pottasch is an artist. She collages, she draws, and she paints. She studied Advertising at Pratt Institute, but for the most part, she’s self-taught. Originally from Connecticut, she’s lived most of her life in Brooklyn. She worked as a graphic designer for many years, but didn’t like it very much.