Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
5/17/24-6/22/24
Defensive Strategies for Tender Objects
Solo Show
Deanna Evans Projects, 373 Broadway, New York, NY
11/9/23-12/10/23
Crystalline Bellies
Solo Presentation
Thomas Hunter Project Space, 930 Lexington Ave, B1, New York, NY
11/2/23-12/16/23
The Speed of Darkness
Two-person show with Natalie Lerner
Parent Company, 165 Willoughby Street, Container #5, Brooklyn, NY
8/14/21-9/16/21
Meet Me in the Spectral Wilderness
Two-person show with C Alex Clark
Wavelength Space, 854 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN
9/22/19-12/22/19
On the Nature of Daylight
Two-person show with Katherine Finkelstein
Doppelgänger | Studio, 59-33 Linden Street, FL 2, Ridgewood, NY
2/2/19-2/24/19
Meaningful Rituals in Irrational Times
Solo Show
Elijah Wheat Showroom, 1196 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
2024
10/25/24-12/14/24
Into the Light
Group Show
Peninsula Art Space, 13 Monroe Street, New York, NY
7/24/24-8/18/24
Summer Reading
Group show
Shelter Gallery, 127 Eldridge St, New York, NY
1/20/24-2/17/24
Signs of Life
Group show curated by Alicia Adamerovich and Christopher Daharsh
Below Grand, 53 Orchard St, New York, NY
2023
10/14/23-11/21/23
Botany of Desire
Group Show
Swivel Gallery, 396 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY
7/21/23-9/4/23
Par·ley
Outdoor Group Show curated by Field Projects
Mother-in-Law Gallery, 140 Church Ave, Germantown, NY
8/19/23-8/20/23
Lawn Monuments
Outdoor Group Show
The Clearing, 308 Cragsmoor Rd, Cragsmoor, NY
6/1/23-7/15/23
Fine Materiality
Three-person show
Peninsula Art Space, 13 Monroe Street, New York, NY
4/15/23-5/7/23
Watching Each Other During
Group Show
Underdonk, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
3/1/23-6/30/23
Radiate and Repeat
Spring Exhibition (Online) and Print Catalog
I Like Your Work
2022
5/14/22-6/19/22
Modular Mosaics
Group Show
Underdonk, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
2021
5/16/21-6/9/21
In the Wake of Slumber
Group Show
Paradice Palase, 1260 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
2020
11/20/20-1/9/21
Solutions
Group Show
Tomato Mouse, 301 Saratoga Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
9/10/2020-10/3/2020
Il Paradiso: Imagining the Eternal
Group Show
Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, New York, NY
2019
8/8/19-9/2/19
Solar Flashback
Group Show
Nitemind Sync, South Street Seaport, 26 Fulton St., New York, NY
7/11/19-7/28/19
MFA Thesis Show
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor, Chicago, IL
3/23/19-5/26/19
Serenity Later
Group Show
Kunstraum, 20 Grand Avenue Loft 509, Brooklyn, NY
2018
11/1-12/16
Scaled UP
Group Show
Deanna Evans Projects, 399 Putnam, Ave, 1A, Brooklyn, NY
10/25 - 11/28
Luz
Group Show
Fullerton College Art Gallery, 321 East Chapman Ave, Biulding 1000, Fullerton, CA
10/12-10/14
Annual Members Opening
Group Show
Sculpture Space NYC, 47-21 35th Street, 11101, LIC, NY
9/22-10/27
Prima Materia
Group Show
La Casa Park, 511 S Mountain Road. Gardiner, NY
9/1 -10/6
Sun Worship and Solar Machines
Group Show
The Fort Point Arts Community, Assemblage, 70A Sleeper Street, Boston, MA
9/4/ - 10/14
SCALE
Group Show
Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
6/29 - 7/1
The New Non: New Narratives in Non-Representational Art and Abstraction
Group show
Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, NY
4/29 - 5/27
How with this Rage Shall Beauty Hold a Plea
Group show
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT
2017
12/1 - 12/17
The 2018 Flat File: Year Five
Group show
Tiger Strikes Astroid, New York, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
11/8/2017 - 1/13/18
Glass Ceiling: Art of Resilience and Fragility
Group show curated by Osman Can Yerebakan
Urban Glass, Agnes Varis Art Center, 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
11/3 - 12/3
Color: Primary to Tertiary
Group show curated by Lilly Wei
Site:Brooklyn, 165 7th St. Brooklyn, NY
8/4 - 9/10
Revealing Reflected Refractions
Group show curated by Jonathan Cowan and Rachael Gorchov
Tiger Strikes Astroid, New York, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
7/26 - 8/26
Chaos/Control
Group show curated by Melinda Wang
Doing/Living, 218 West 57th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
2016
5/5 - 6/11
Signaling to ^ the Cipher ^ towards a Segway
Group show curated by Jesse David Penridge
Field Projects, 526 W 26th St #807, New York, NY
11/11/2022
Paradice Palase
Artist Interview
10/5/2022
Art Maze Mag Print Issue 28
Featured Artist
12/15/2020
Curated Selection by Elizabeth Denny
Dovetail, Print Issue 2, Featured Artist
12/19/2019
Artist Profile at TheIndianCurator.com
Interview with Sonalee Tomar
2/1/2019
Balancing Careers in Art and Design
Magenta article by Andrew A. Wagner
12/12/2017
Experiencing Light: Interview With Alison Kudlow
Create Magazine feature
9/12/2017
Art Uncovered Podcast
Interview with Kimberly Ruth
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019: MFA in Studio Art.
Brandeis University
2007: Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Studio Art.
University of Southern California
2003: Bachelor of Arts in Cinema-Television Production.
Minored in Interactive Multimedia.
With hand-built ceramic forms, Alison Kudlow evokes the surreal plasticity she experienced when her body’s shape and functionality transformed during illness, surgery, pregnancy, birth, and lactation. Her work explores complex negotiations with the body in flux, conjuring the more porous, alien, and transitional conditions of human be-ing.
Kudlow captures glass in mid-motion so that it seeps upward from orifices and drips downward from crevices. She has developed kiln programs to heat glass until it is viscous and then drop the temperature to pause the drips. The resulting glass appears liquid and embodies heat, gravity, and time. Arrested in motion, the sculptures seem forever in the process of becoming. They imply a glacial pace, challenging anthropocentric notions of time.
Metal and rubber elements add tension, acting as stand-ins for external forces exerted upon the forms. The metal often supports the piece, but sometimes pierces it to do so. Viewers may find moments of readability—a petal, a fin, a mouth—and a fleshiness that tells us these might be bodies, but fundamentally they refuse language and categorization. Their slipperiness connotes infinite fluid possibilities and any empathy toward them provides a moment of connection with the unknown and unknowable.
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Alison Kudlow (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from the University of Southern California, a post-baccalaureate degree from Brandeis University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Studio Art. Kudlow’s New York solo and two-person exhibitions include those at Deanna Evans Projects, Parent Company Gallery, Elijah Wheat Showroom, and the Thomas Hunter Project Space at Hunter College. Her work has been included in group exhibitions, including those at Peninsula art Space, Swivel Gallery, Field Projects, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, UrbanGlass, Underdonk, and at Fullerton College in California. She was an invited resident at the Art Ichol Center in Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, India in January 2023.
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