change position by allison anne

My creative practice is a diary, a guidebook, a map to the interior made from exteriors—printed matter recontextualized, arranged and rearranged, changing position. When it comes to collage, I've always found what's implied and unknown as fascinating as the final composition. Both collage and abstraction are an invitation to see beyond and between. Meaning is removed, changed, and redefined by artist and viewer alike. change position, a series of six works, were made together rhythmically in three layers—one unseen that is hidden underneath, drawn out texturally by distressing a middle layer, finished with imagematter, pattern and color on top. Memory and paper travel—there are bits here from the collections of family members, things left over from past projects made a decade or more ago when I lived in a city hundreds of miles away from Minneapolis. And in their transformed state, maybe these collages reveal memory or meaning to you, too.

allison anne is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (unceded Očhéthi Šakówiŋ land), working in a variety of mediums including collage, zinemaking, publishing and graphic design. The core of their practice is handcut paper collage -- a constantly evolving exploration of experience and emotion through the reconstitution and rearranging of various printed media and ephemera. By recontexualizing images and materials, allison seeks to create complex textural, intuitive abstractions and configurations which prioritize that which is found, discarded and left behind, exploring the intersections and interactions between context, materiality and creativity.

Work by allison has been widely exhibited and published, including appearances in Contemporary Collage Magazine, C'est Bon Anthology, Cults Of Life, numerous collage books and literary magazines, and in the collections of the Scandinavian Collage Museum and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. They are founding member of Twin Cities Collage Collective, a member of the International Union of Mail-Artists, and part of the collaborative projects Morphic Rooms and Scissor Prism Orchestra. In 2022, allison cofounded NONMACHINABLE, a publisher and distributor of optically interesting zines and printed material, with artist Jeremy P. Bushnell.

Instagram: @allisonannecollage Twitter: @allisoncollage Web: allisonanne.com

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