allison stewart artist

Hyatt International Hotels, Baltimore, MD Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN 1983 Intercontinental Tampa, Tampa, FL Awards include fellowships and grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation, and artist-in-residence with Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. “Paper and Stone”InvitationalExhibit, Island Gallery, Vero Beach, FL Southern Accents, January – February, 2000

M.F.A., University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA Morgan Keegan Inc. Memphis TN Broadway Art Gallery, Asheville, NC Allison Stewart has exhibited extensively throughout the United States. 1989 New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles, May, 2007 1994, 1993, 1991 Copyright © 2020 M Contemporary Designed by Big Max's Studio. Duval Smart Gallery, Aspen, CO

Instructor, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, FL Allison Stewart didn’t always plan on being an artist—before pursuing a graduate degree in painting, she studied biology. 1997 Her work is included in many public, corporate and private collections, including the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Historic New Orleans Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Freeport McMoRan, ARCO, American Express, Pan American Life, and the Pensacola Museum of Art.

1985 “HxWxD” UNO Alumni Show, St. Claude Gallery, New Orleanss, LA

Ernst and Whinney, LLP, New Orleans Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery AL Little Nell Hotel, Aspen, CO 2001 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Iberia Bank, Lafayette, LA He is best known for his satirical, often raunchy movies and considers his artwork to be an extension of …, Robert Gordy is considered one of the most original and creative Southern painters of the twentieth century. MCI Communications, Miami, FL New Orleans Art Review, November – December, 1996, pp 3-7 Kathy Albers Gallery, Memphis, TN

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

In 1998, Stewart co-founded KID smART, a Louisiana 501.c.3 non-profit organization to teach under resourced children in Orleans Parish important life lessons through hands on art activities in the visual and performing arts www.kidsmart.org. Southern Living, May,2008Photo Louisiana Division of the Arts Decentralized Arts Funding Grant In the early 1980s, late in Robert Gordy’s notable career as one of …, Jonathan “feral opossum” Mayers’ was born where the Houma and Bayogoula tribes came together under the istrouma, le batôn rouge (the red stick).

Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, Member, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Artist-in-Residence, Roaring Fork Club, Basalt, CO Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Quarterly, Spring, 1998, pp 66 – 73 Curatedby Peter Frank. Louisiana State University, Alexandria, LA She has served on the faculty of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, Loyola University, Delgado Community College, Aspen Museum of Art, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. Board Member, Contemporary Arts Center,New Orleans, LA “Major Louisiana Artists,” Galerie Melancon, Lake Charles, LA, 2008

2002 Artist Honoree, “Love in the Garden,” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Foley and Judell LLP New Orleans, LA The Kullman Firm, Memphis, TN Baton Rouge and South Lousiana was more …, Jonathan Mayers | Artists’ Chronicles: 2020. Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN 2004 1988 “The Eloquent Flower”Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Grand Casino, Biloxi MS River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria, LA Bargnanier McKee Architectural Assoc. Instructor, Painting, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA, “HxWxD” catalogue, UNO Gallery, St. Claude Arts District.

Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University “Ten by Ten,” Invitational, Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. Kathy Albers Gallery, Memphis, TN Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN Juror, “Uncertain Territory: Losing Louisiana , “ Grand Isle Juried Exhibit, Delgado College, New Orleans Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, Poised as she is, Stewart is capable of such delicacy and finesse within the ominous frisson of her underlying message — the oddness of a hue or eccentricity of a formal relationship hints at something much larger and less stable or reassuring than her surfaces may lead us to feel. 2001 Louisiana Life, Spring, 1997, p. 36 1988- 1989 1997 Stewart has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and has been represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans since 1980. Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

Roger Ogden Collection, New Orleans, LA Spring Hill College, Mobile,AL Monroe and Lemann LLP, New Orleans, LA Instructor, Drawing, Metro College,University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA Simon, Peragine Smith and Redfarn, LLP, New Orleans, LA Guest Instructor, The Studios in Key West, Key West, FL Allison Stewart didn’t always plan on being an artist—before pursuing a graduate degree in painting, she studied biology. She uses layers of color, light, form and texture to address issues of beauty and loss, time and transformation.Residing somewhere between realism and abstraction, the paintings become visual diaries upon which Stewart records her responses to the threatened landscape. “I’m one of those people who loved dissecting plants and animals, and making my own slides,” she says. 1991 Southern Accents, June, 1989, p 124 Guest Panelist, “Creativity and Rejection”Symposium, presented by the New Orleans Arts Council and New Orleans Associationfor Mental Health Professionals. 1999 Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO Joseph Canizaro Interests, New Orleans, LA Allison Stewart creates a body of work that occupies the space between landscape and organic abstractions. Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. New Orleans, LA River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria, LA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA “Visions of Landscape”Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, FL 1991 Texaco Inc. New Orleans, LA 1990 1989 – 1993 Pan American Life Insurance, New Orleans, LA Among the awards Stewart has received are an individual artist fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts in 1988, an individual artist grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in 1997, and the Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation Grant in 1995.In 2005 she was awarded an Artist in Residence position at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado.

Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver CO New Orleans Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, LA 1993 Allison Stewart creates a body of work that occupies the space between landscape and organic abstractions. Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN “The Book as Art”Invitational,BarbaraGillman Gallery,Miami, FL Art Space, Shreveport, LA, 1991 “Paper Works”Slidell Art Center, Slidell, LA Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA “Made in New Orleans: A Survey of Contemporary Art from the Crescent City,” Space 301, Mobile, AL, Ryan Companies US, Minneapolis, MN Biology, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, 2009

2006 Renee George Gallery, Charlotte, NC Anderson Ranch Residents Exhibit, Snowmass Village, CO New Orleans Times Picayune, September 13, 1996 Jules Place, Boston, MA 2005 1999 Sardella Fine Art, Aspen, CO 1997 Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center,, Snowmass Village, CO Member Visual Arts Visiting Committee, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY

Invitational Echibit, Patina Gallery, Fairhope, AL 2000 2002, 2004, “Major Louisiana Sculptors”, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA Carter Kay Interiors, Atlanta, GA “Mostly Big” Invitational Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA One River Place, New Orleans, LA Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 2002 Instructor, Drawing & Painting,Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO 2001

1987 2005 Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL

“Gaia in the Gallery”, Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO Curator, “Close Up,” Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY

Aranov Realty, Montgomery, AL Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA Bryan Associated, Houston, TX Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA Alabama Power Co. Montgomery, AL Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation Grant “I’m one of those people who loved dissecting plants and animals, and making my own slides,” she says.

2006 Mandarin Hotel, Miami, FL

Based in New Orleans, ALLISON STEWART has gained national recognition for her paintings expressing the complex and disturbing dialogue between man and nature. Alston and Bird, LLC, Atlanta, GA Artist selected for “Century Club Print,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Price Waterhouse Corp., New Orleans, LA Stewart’s art isn’t the calm before the storm — it is the eye,” Peter Frank. Le Saint Seran Resort, Mauritius, South Africa