Lot 97B
Allison Merriweather (American, b. 1962). Fantastical garden scene. Acrylic on canvas, n.d. Signed at lower left. A delightful painting featuring a fantastical scene by American Folk Artist Allison Merriweather. Rendered in vibrant hues of teal, cerulean, burgundy, spring green, black, gold, and yellow, the whimsical composition shows a central woman who has just slayed a dragon or monster with an arrow, behind her are two mailbox-bird hybrid creatures while a lone, dead tree is shown in the background and a limp, claw-like hand protrudes from the right. When describing the elaborate absurdity that embodies her paintings, Merriweather has said, "I paint intuitively and extemporaneously. The stories, symbolism, and subject matter flow from an almost unconscious place. I feel connected to something larger while working on a piece. Animals, people with interesting faces, world cultures, and dreamlike symbolism come together to tell a story. The storytelling in my work frequently combines the surreal and the humorous." Size: 18" W x 14" H (45.7 cm x 35.6 cm)
About the artist: "Allison Merriweather is a true 'outsider' artist. She is compelled to paint by a force she does not understand. She uses symbolism, often repeated across various works, in both large and small ways. The ferocious animals in many of her works are an obvious theme; the little green grasshopper which hops among many of her canvases is a less obvious one.
Allison Merriweather is a dreamer and a visionary. Her highly charged, instantly recognizable style has gained wide acclaim among the viewing public. Reality is rearranged and transformed in her mind into intensely personal visions which she then transfers to canvas with directness, freshness, and a 'passionate uniqueness' as one critic put it, obeying no rules but those of her imagination. Allison's paintings possess a mysterious poetry. Above all she is a masterful storyteller, putting elements within our grasp and counting on the viewer to draw the correct conclusions.
Allison has had an incredible number of one-woman exhibitions, many in California at venues including the Upstairs Gallery, The Lab, the Wells Fargo Exhibition Room, the American Institute of Architecture, and others. Her prints have been featured at the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. At last count, she has participated in almost thirty juried shows with many awards and publications including Artweek and Man In Nature. Her paintings are in many corporate collections among them are The Tanaka Group, Tokyo, Intersource Group, Los Angeles, and Altec Digital Industries, Redwood City, California." (source: artist's bio on "Trivia: Voices of Feminism" website)
Provenance: private Rochester, Minnesota, USA collection, acquired from 1990 -1998
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- Condition: Signed at lower left. In excellent overall condition.
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