About
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through the common language of the human face and figure we instinctively recognize and respond to one another’s physical and emotional conditions. I use this natural affinity in my work, through narrative and allegory, to provoke insights into ourselves and those around us, challenge us to acknowledge our true relationship to each other, and invite us to imagine a more just future.
One of the functions of art that most interests me is its ability to make space for conversations. According to Leo Tolstoy, communication through art is “a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.” It is my hope and privilege to participate in this process through the work of my hands.
My religious faith has always influenced my work, and the sculptures in the Encounters series are drawn directly from biblical narratives. In some of my sculptures beauty is my primary language, but often there is an element of brokenness or distortion, which reflects the grief, pain, and separation we all experience.
At the core of my work is the conviction that to deny that we are broken is dishonest, and art that ignores suffering forsakes its power to facilitate healing.
In all of my work it is my goal to create evocative, technically excellent sculptures that communicate the truth about human experiences in an honoring, challenging, and hopeful way that creates space for conversations that help us to better understand one another and ourselves.
Bio
Allison Streett is a classically trained figurative sculptor. She has received local and national recognition for her figurative sculpture and drawings in solo and group exhibitions, and competitions.
Allison has worked in the tradition of figurative sculpture for over two decades. Specializing in portraits and figures cast in bronze, she has received local and national recognition in many group exhibitions and competitions. Among her recent awards, in 2023 her portrait entitled Introspect won the Gloria Spevacek Award at the 126th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Open Exhibition in New York City and Becoming won second place in the National Sculpture Society Texas and Oklahoma Exhibition. In 2022, How the Light Gets In was awarded the Harriet W. Frishmuth Memorial Award for Bronze Sculpture at the 125th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Open Exhibition. Her sculptures were featured in the Annual National Sculpture Society Awards Exhibitions in 2023 and 2021, Emerging Stars in American Sculpture hosted by the National Sculpture Society at Brookgreen Gardens and the Portrait Society of America’s Tri-State Competition in 2019.
Based outside of Fort Worth, Texas, Allison is the daughter of a poet, the mother of six fascinating children, and the wife of a Biblical scholar. In addition to sculpting and home-educating her children, she enjoys being outside and reading poetry, literature, theology, and philosophy, from which many of her artistic inspirations spring.