BIO/CV
Alison Rash is a Los Angeles based artist who grew up in rural Nebraska and recently relocated to Lincoln NE. Rash earned an MFA from Claremont Graduate University with a concentration in Painting, an MA in Education from Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology and a BA in Art from Pepperdine University. Her current body of work explores the idea of absence and the relationship between compulsive and impulsive mark-making. Her work occupies the intersection among order, coincidence and manipulation. The paintings, while appearing physical, are very light in paint application. Rash has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas and Washington D.C. as well as internationally in Paris, France; Venice, Italy and Tokyo, Japan.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Studio Art, Research Interest – Painting and Drawing, 2010
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CaliforniaB.A. Art, Cum Laude, 2001 Pepperdine University – Seaver College, Malibu, California
Intensive Art Study, 2001 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
• 2019, Re: Union , Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
• 2019, Bon Weekend, Studio Gallery DC, Washington DC
• 2019, Carte Blanche , Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2018, Material Art Fair, JAUS Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
• 2018, Carte Blanche, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2017, TRAKR , POST LA, Los Angeles, CA
• 2017, Carte Blanche, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2017, Abstraction in the Singular , Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
• 2017, Abstract Miniatures , Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
• 2017, LA Bo Por Venezuela , Carlos Blanco Studio, Bogota, Columbia
• 2016, Hysterical Friction, La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo, Chihuahua, Mexico
• 2016, Material Art Fair, JAUS Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
• 2016, Medici Exhibition, Eisentrager Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE
• 2015, Hysterical Friction: Works on Paper from JAUS LA, TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY
• 2015, Currents, Prescott Gallery, Lincoln, NE
• 2015, Didn’t You Once Date Picasso? - Solo Show, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2015, Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Adah Rose Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2015, Hysterical Friction - Works on Paper from JAUS LA, TSA New York, Buschwick, NY
• 2015, Rash Chambers - A Two Person Exhibition, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA
• 2015, Carte Blanche, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2015, PULSE - Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
• 2014, Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Adah Rose Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2014, Carte Blanche, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2014, Groovy Paris, Galerie du Haut Pave, Paris, France
• 2014, PULSE - Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
• 2014, In 2040 - Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2013, PULSE - Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
• 2013, Carte Blanche: Asia, Joey, Kara, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2013, Frieze Art Fair, New York, NY
• 2013, Energy. Ecstasy. Edge. Alison Rash and Chris Trueman, Adah Rose Gallery,
Kensington, MD
• 2013, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
• 2013, Next to Nothing, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
• 2013, M.A.S. Attack, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012, From Honolulu, Queens, Logan Circle, Chicago, Sierra Leone, Brooklyn and New
Jersey with Love, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
• 2012, CoLab, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012, Subterraneans, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
• 2012, Painting on Edge: REDUX, D.E.N. Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012, Durden and Ray: Year Two, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012, Joanna Burke, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012, Whitebox Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
• 2012, Painting on Edge, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012, 80 Days, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
• 2012, Durden and Ray: Year Two, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012, Speculative Materialism II, AC Projects, Pomona, CA
• 2012, To Live and Paint in LA, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
• 2011, Spread the Word, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
• 2011, La Cosa Nostra – This Thing of Ours, Galerie Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA
• 2011, CoLab, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
• 2011, Speculative Materialism II, AC Projects, Pomona, CA
• 2011, Super Salon, FlagStop, Torrance, CA
• 2011, Re:Present, Durden and Ray, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
• 2011, Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2011, Entering Abstraction, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2011, Suspended Literal, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
• 2011, Speculative Materialism, D-Block Projects, Long Beach, CA
• 2011, Alison Wonderland, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• 2011, Spectrum, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal State Polytechnic
University Pomona, CA
• 2011, Year One, Commonspace LA, Los Angeles, CA
• 2010, L_ove A_lways, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan
• 2010, Eight from CGU, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2010, Complex Yet Approachable, Project 210, Pasadena, CA
• 2010, Merging, East and Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
• 2010, Alison Rash, Solo Exhibition, East Gallery, Claremont, CA
• 2010, Crashing Culver, Bonsai Projects, Culver City, CA
• 2009, Making Out, East and Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
• 2009, Nel Vostro Spazio / In Your Space, Venice, Italy
• 2009, Twenty-Eight, East and Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
• 2009, Surface Strata, Patricia Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
• 2009, Red Show, DA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
• 2008, Laundry List, East and Peggy Phelps Galleries, Claremont, CA`
• 2007, “House, M.D.” Artwork featured on FOX drama, Los Angeles, CA
• 2007, Santa Monica Fine Art Studios Annual Exhibition, SMFAS, Santa Monica, CA
HONORS AND AWARDS
Claremont Graduate University Merit Fellowship (2009-2010)
Walker/Parker Memorial Fellowship (2009)
Dedalus Foundation Fellowship Nominee (2009)
Claremont Graduate University Art Fellow (2008-2009)
Pepperdine University Outstanding Artist (2001)
Golden Key National Honor Society (1998-Present)
Dean’s List (1999-2001)
Ruth T. Langford Memorial Scholarship (1998-2001)
Grant Rotary Club Scholarship (1998)
PUBLICATIONS
• Jenkins, Mark, "D.C. gallery shows: ‘Fresh,’ ‘Yours, Mine & Ours,’ ‘Great Streets’
and ‘Carte Blanche’," The Washington Post, August 24, 2013
• Landau, Lauren, "Art Beat with Lauren Landau, August 14," WAMU 88.5: Art Beat, August 14, 2013
• Landau, Lauren, "Art Beat with Lauren Landau, April 24," WAMU 88.5: Art Beat, April 24, 2013
• "100 Works to See Before You Die in San Diego," San Diego Magazine, September 2011
• Arrowsmith, Dawn, Nancy Spiller and Jill Sykes. Nel Vostro Spazio / In Your Space, 2011: 29-30 (catalog)
• “A Studio of One’s Own,” The Flame, Volume 10, Number 3, Spring 2010: 14-19 (illustrated)
• Moore, Alex and Emily Smith. Objective Affection, Claremont Graduate University Art Journal, 2010: 29-32 (catalog)
• Cheng, DeWitt. "Spatio-Temporal Flux," East Bay Express, Volume 31, Issue 52, October 7-13, 2009: 21
• Roman, Cate and Catherine Wagley. Exposures, Claremont Graduate University Art Journal, 2009: 22-23 (catalog)
• Hoff, Chris, "Small is Big at the Torrance Art Museum," OC Art Blog, February 7, 2012
• “Painting on Edge II,” ArtWeek LA, September 15, 2012