Alison Luoma received her BFA in Sculpture from Grand Valley State University
in Michigan, and her MFA in Sculpture from Penn State University. Alison
has recently joined the faculty at KU as an Assistant Professor of Art, she
teaches sculpture and drawing. Before coming to Lawrence, she was a full-time
Instructor of Art at Penn State University.
Alison’s research investigates the ways that social expectation affect personal desire. She uses a variety of processes and techniques to create interactive object-based installations that simultaneously call to mind and contradict stereotypical situations. Her sculptures exaggerate or enhance the intrinsic sensual qualities present in objects, and challenge modes of advertising and display. Alison uses materials that are appealing to touch and invites viewers to handle her work because she wants them to experience the incongruity between fantasizing and experiencing.
She has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions including, Home on the Edge at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland Ohio, Fabrications at the Women Made Gallery in Chicago Illinois, and 3D: Devilish, Decadent, Delicious at the Emily Davis Gallery in Akron Ohio. Alison has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids Michigan this January.
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