Allison Zuckerman
{{short description|American contemporary artist and painter (born 1990)}}
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Allison Zuckerman (born 1990) is an American contemporary artist and painter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/felicitycarter/2018/08/09/allison-zuckerman-rewrites-art-history-to-reclaim-famous-females/|title=Allison Zuckerman Rewrites Art History To Reclaim Famous Females|website=Forbes|access-date=August 9, 2018}} Zuckerman's pop-surrealist work{{Cite web |last=MacSweeney |first=Eve |date=5 December 2017 |title=The Women to Watch at Art Basel Miami |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/women-to-watch-art-basel-miami |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 May 2019 |website=Vogue}} fuses painting with digital printing techniques and appropriates various art historical tropes and references to "recast the submissive, romanticized female muses painted by male artists throughout Western art history as commanding, empowered figures."{{Cite web |last=Turner |first=Anderson |date=3 November 2018 |title=Classical paintings reimagined: Allison Zuckerman gives historical works of art a modern, feminist twist |url=https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/entertainment/arts/2018/11/03/classical-paintings-reimagined/9327171007/ |access-date=21 May 2019 |website=Akron Beacon Journal}} Zuckerman creates an alternative narrative by remixing the female sitters of prominent male artists into a feminist 21st century.{{Cite web |last=O'Neill |first=Emma |date=August 2018 |title=Allison Zuckerman: How to make art the star |url=http://vaultart.com.au/ISS23/zuckerman.php |access-date=22 May 2019 |website=Vault · Australasian Art & Culture Magazine}}
Early life and education
Zuckerman grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.{{Cite web |last=Dafoe |first=Taylor |date=5 December 2017 |title=Behind Artist Allison Zuckerman's Rapid Rise From Gallery Assistant to the Rubell Family's Newest Obsession |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-wunderkind-allison-zuckerman-went-from-gallery-assistant-to-a-solo-show-at-the-rubell-collection-in-one-year-1168823 |access-date=21 May 2019 |website=Artnet News}} She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.
Zuckerman attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art in 2011.
Work and exhibitions
Zuckerman's first solo exhibition, "Act Natural", opened at Kravets Wehby Gallery in 2017.
Zuckerman was the artist-in-residence at the Rubell Family Collection during the summer of 2017.{{Cite web |last=Lakin |first=Max |date=28 November 2017 |title=Allison Zuckerman's Historical Heroines Take Over the Rubell Collection |url=https://www.culturedmag.com/allison-zuckermans-historical-heroines-take-rubell-collection/ |access-date=22 May 2019 |website=Cultured Magazine}}{{Cite web|url=https://rfc.museum/|title=Rubell Family Collection|website=rfc.museum|access-date=August 22, 2019}} During this time, she created work for her first museum solo show "Stranger in Paradise" which opened December 6, 2017 at the Rubell Family Collection in Wynwood, Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach week.{{Cite web|url=https://www.maxim.com/style/10-artists-to-watch-art-basel-miami-beach-2017-12|title=10 Breakout Artists To Watch at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017|last=Wilson|first=Chris|website=Maxim|date=December 8, 2017 |access-date=2019-05-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/miami-art-guide-december-2017-1163963|title=Must-See Art Guide: Miami|date=2017-11-30|website=artnet News|access-date=2019-05-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://sg.asiatatler.com/life/art-basel-miami-museums|title=Beyond Art Basel: 5 Must-See Museums In Miami|last=Giles|first=Oliver|date=2018-11-30|website=Singapore Tatler|access-date=2019-05-22}} Zuckerman used "paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/t-magazine/design/an-ode-to-joyful-self-consciously-naive-design.html|title=An Ode to Joyful, Self-consciously Naïve Design|date=2018-03-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-22|issn=0362-4331}} suffused with cultural and societal critiques.{{Cite web|url=https://rfc.museum/allison-zuckerman|title=Allison Zuckerman|website=rfc.museum|access-date=2019-05-21}}" Michael Darling and Tami Katz-Freiman were contributing authors for the exhibition catalogue.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkrkuwEACAAJ|title=Allison Zuckerman: Stranger in Paradise|last=Katz-Freiman|first=Tami|date=December 6, 2017|publisher=Rubell Family Collection|isbn=9780971634114|language=en}}
Zuckerman's second museum solo show, "Pirate and Muse,{{Cite web |last1= |first1= |last2= |title=Allison Zuckerman: Pirate and Muse |url=https://akronartmuseum.org/exhibitions/allison-zuckerman-pirate-and-muse/13012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424212637/https://akronartmuseum.org/exhibitions/allison-zuckerman-pirate-and-muse/13012 |archive-date=24 April 2019 |access-date=21 May 2019 |website=Akron Art Museum}}" opened October 27, 2018 at the Akron Art Museum. Jeremy Scott, Creative Director of Moschino, wrote the foreword for the exhibition's catalogue.{{Cite web|url=https://akron-art-museum-shop.myshopify.com/products/allison-zuckerman-pirate-and-muse-hardcover-2018-signed|title=Allison Zuckerman: Pirate And Muse (hardcover, 2018) signed|website=Akron Art Museum Shop|access-date=August 22, 2019}}{{Cite book|title=Pirate and Muse|last=Zuckerman|first=Allison|publisher=Akron Art Museum|year=2018|isbn=9780692196465|location=Akron, Ohio|language=en}} Zuckerman's figures are amalgams of body parts, clothing and background elements from artists [all male] throughout history, and Disney and other pop culture imagery."
"She uses elements of Picasso’s style{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/t-magazine/design/an-ode-to-joyful-self-consciously-naive-design.html|title=An Ode to Joyful, Self-consciously Naïve Design|date=2018-03-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-22|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/05/genius-picasso-creativity-greatness-prodigy-legacy/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210112533/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/05/genius-picasso-creativity-greatness-prodigy-legacy/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 10, 2018|title=How Picasso's Journey From Prodigy to Icon Revealed a Genius|date=2018-04-19|website=Magazine|access-date=2019-05-21}}", Cézanne, and Matisse{{Cite web |last=Arehart |first=Mark |date=30 November 2018 |title=State of the Arts: When Memes Meet Manet, the Bold Work of Allison Zuckerman |url=https://www.wksu.org/post/state-arts-when-memes-meet-manet-bold-work-allison-zuckerman |access-date=21 May 2019 |website=WKSU}} within many of her paintings.
The Pizzuti Collection{{Cite web|url=http://www.pizzuti.columbusmuseum.org/|title=Home|website=Pizzuti Collection|access-date=August 22, 2019}} featured Zuckerman's work in the group show "Go Figure", "an exhibition that investigates the human form in both a tender and provocative approach{{Cite web |date=13 July 2018 |title=Go Figure / Alec Soth {{!}} |url=https://independent-collectors.com/collections/go-figure-alec-soth-pizzuti-collection/ |access-date=22 May 2019 |website=Independent Collectors}}" in 2018.
In 2020, Zuckerman's exhibition "Paper Doll" opened at Kravets Wehby Gallery. In this body of work, published in Vogue Italia’s November 2019 issue, Allison Zuckerman interpreted the yet-to-be-released clothing line from Louis Vuitton.{{Cite web |date=11 November 2019 |title=Utopia. Allison Zuckerman per Vogue Italia |url=https://www.vogue.it/moda/article/utopia-allison-zuckerman-louis-vuitton-novembre/ |access-date=November 11, 2019 |website=Vogue |language=it}} Zuckerman has continued her collaboration with Vogue Italia, creating an 8-page spread featuring 8 different designers, for the January 2021 issue, "Zootopia".{{cite web |title=Zootopia. Allison Zuckerman per Vogue Italia |url=https://www.vogue.it/moda/article/zootopia-allison-zuckerman-gennaio |website=Vogue Italia |date=January 9, 2021 |access-date=9 August 2021 |language=it-IT}}
Zuckerman designed the cover art{{Cite web |last=Milligan |first=Kaitlin |date=7 May 2020 |title=Charli XCX Shares New Single 'I Finally Understand' |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Charli-XCX-Shares-New-Single-I-Finally-Understand-20200507 |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Broadway World |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Waite |first=Thom |date=7 May 2020 |title=Charli XCX shares the latest track and visuals from her forthcoming album |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/49170/1/charli-xcx-shares-latest-track-and-visuals-from-new-album-i-finally-understand |access-date=8 May 2020 |website=Dazed |language=en}} for "i finally understand" by Charli XCX, released on 7 May 2020 as the third single from her upcoming fourth studio album how i'm feeling now. She worked with Tods in March 2021 to promote their [https://www.tods.com/us-en/tods-world/shirt-bag/chapter-2.html Shirt Bag].
Awards
- 2015: George and Ann Siegel Award, MFA Fellowship Competition, SAIC{{Cite web |title=SAIC Announces the Winners of This Year's Fellowship Competition |url=https://www.saic.edu/press/saic-announces-winners-years-fellowship-competition |website=School of the Art Institute of Chicago}}
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Category:American contemporary painters
Category:Artists from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni