Alison Jardine ~ Résumé
2011 – Winner of Henderson Art Project – selected by jury and public voting to place a public artwork on Henderson Avenue, in Dallas.
2010 – Grand Prize Winner – PAA’s Members’ show, and First Place in 2011 (juror Professor Luke Sides)
2009 – Grand Prize Winner of Art of Elan, which awarded both a cash prize and free studio & gallery space in Dallas
- 2012
- I’ll be creating digital art as part of The LiveLive Project – inspired by London 2012 forming part of the uk’s cultural Olympiad.
- This project is creating art that may be shown on the BBC’s Big Boards, throughout the Olympic 2012 games.
- Find out more at their website: http://www.liveliveproject.com/
- 7×7 Project ~ Rising Gallery, Dallas. June. Opening reception June 1st. Seven artists have collaborated on seven works, and will also be showing their own latest art.
- 500XPO ~ 500X gallery, Dallas. Annual juried show ~ juror Aaron Parazette
- 125 Show, The ARTs Gallery, Plano, TX ~ juried by artist Ryder Richards and Valley House gallery’s Laura Green.
- Twitter Art Show ~ Moss, Norway
- 7×7 Project ~ artistic collaboration between myself and six other artists. The results will be shown at Rising Gallery, Dallas.
- Lytle Pressley Gallery, Austin (Austin Art Connections) ~ “Goldilocks” group show.
- Chair of the PAA’s juried 125 Show; exhibit in March 2012 at the ARTS Gallery in Plano.
- ArtHash Open Salon Show ~ group show ~ Kettle Arts, Deep Ellum, Dallas. Opens Jan 14th.
- Incrementum ~ charitable group show to support Alley’s House ~ Rising Gallery, Dallas. Reception February 4th.
- Ro2 Art Holiday Show ~ Ro2 Uptown Gallery, Mckinney Ave, Dallas.
2011
- Solo Show ~PixelNation ~ the Aloft Hotel, Dallas ~ presented by Ro2 Art (December 2011) – read Press Release
- Ro2 Art Holiday Show ~ Ro2 Uptown Gallery, Mckinney Ave, Dallas.
- Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT ~ Juxtaposition group show. Juror: Alyssa Monks
- Bathhouse Cultural Center ~ 30th Anniversary show. Curator: Enrique Cervantes
- Artist’s Talk: Finding your Inner Voice and Unique Style as an Artist ~ ArtCentre of Plano
- Solo Show ~ PixelNation ~ ArtCentre of Plano, Plano, TX
- The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX ~ Members’ show ~ Meltdown
- Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX ~ Summer Show, featuring the work of ten artists
- SEEDs and Spare pArts fundraising auctions (Dallas)
- PAA’s 125 Show – I co-Chaired and co-organized this juried exhibit for North Texas artists
- Solo Show ~ Intermittent Light ~Laura Moore Fine Art, McKinney, TX
- Public artwork ~ Henderson Avenue, Dallas ~ my work was chosen by public and jury voting to be placed outdoors for a two-year period, 2011 to 2013. You can visit this piece by driving north on Henderson Avenue, from Ross, in Dallas. My work is situated before you reach Glencoe Road, on the right.
- The Art Gallery at the Courtyard Theatre – Plano – Group Show of four artists’ work – “Wild At Heart”
- Artscape at the Dallas Arboretum ~ Juried Fine Art Fair
- Ugallery Paperwork Artshow ~ San Fransisco
- 42nd PAA Members’ Show ~ ArtCentre of Plano (winner – First Place) Juror: Prof. Luke Sides
2010
- K Space Contemporary (Corpus Christi, TX) ~ Third Coast National ~ Juror: Trenton Doyle Hancock.
- Xue Contemporary Gallery, Design District, Dallas (Irving Blvd.) ~ group exhibit, Mind Rules Matter
- Bath House Cultural Center (White Rock Lake, Dallas, TX) ~ Día de los Muertos ~ Juried show. Juried by Bath House Curator Enrique Fernández Cervantes.
- Twitter Art Show ~ Moss, Norway (group show organized over twitter, to raise money for children’s books for a library)
- Art Conspiracy, Dallas TX
- Co-Chair and Co-Organizer of the Multicultural Art Show in Plano, TX (Plano Art Association
- The MAC (Mckinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas) Members’ show
- Studio2Gallery, in Austin, TX ~ “Poet Tree”, juror Tina Weitz
- Affordable Art Fair, Manhattan, New York. Presented by ugallery.com.
- The Arts Gallery, Plano, TX ~ PAA’s 125 Show ~ Juried Exhibition
- Judged the Art of Santa Monica (Elan) competition in Santa Monica, CA, USA.
- The LLoyd Gill Gallery, UK. Invited to be key exhibitor at a group show titled ‘Contemporary Translation in Suprematism‘
- Pearl @ Commerce in Dallas ~ Group show: “Art & Toys” an invitational one-day art & music event at the , featuring 12 local artists.
- Artscape at the Dallas Arboretum, March 20 to 21st ~ Juried Fine Art Fair
2009
- Solo Show – New Works. This launched the Jardine Studio Gallery on Northwest Highway in Dallas
~ this show and free gallery space was part of the Grand Prize for winning the Elan Art competition.
- Elan Art contest ~ Grand Prize Winner
- Plano Art Association 41st Annual Members Show, Grand Prize Winner
- Invitational Show: The Best of 2009, TVAA Gallery at the Downtown Gallery
- Art Conspiracy, Charity Art, Auction & Music Event, Dallas
- Grandon Gallery, AZ ~ group show “Twitter 140″
- TVAA’s Downtown Gallery, Pearl St, Dallas TX ~ curated art show “The Self Portrait: Who Are You?”
2008
- 44th McKinney Art Festival ~ juried exhibition ~ prize winner
2007
- Artists Showplace, Dallas, TX ~ juried exhibition (portrait)
- Upstream Gallery Ninth Annual Faces Exhibition ~ juried exhibition
Recent Features & Interviews
- Featured by arts writer Michael Granberry in the Dallas Morning news, December 19 and December 23, 2011.
- Press release for PixelNation in Dallas
- Wrote article for Janet Vanderhoof’s blog about my 365-iPad project
- Featured on Pattern Pulp, a connective design & trend website
- Presented a talk about finding your unique voice as an artist, ArtCentre of Plano, Plano, TX.
- Authored article for Digital Artist magazine: Introduction to Abstraction ( pub. July 14, 2011)
- Digital Artist magazine ran an article in issue 20 about my iPad 365-day project
- Artist A Day
- NOTCOT.org
- Muses Magazine
- Press release about solo show at Laura Moore Fine Art ~ Read the Press Release
- “A Voice in the Wilderness” ~ feature in Culturazzi online magazine
- Press Release about Third Coast National show at K Space Contemporary
- JR Compton of Dallas Arts Revue reviewed my piece (“On the Edge” 8″ x 10″ oil on canvas”) for the Mckinney Avenue Contemporary show….
“…it works. Simple. Colorful. There’s an odd depth that flits from light and medium to dark and back that never once interfered with my seeing. Like the subject has slipped the surely bonds of pseudo-realism, splashed through a little high color contrast abstraction, then eases back into whatever’s left. Artist’s reality.”
- I was featured as one of 20 artists to watch in 2010 on twitter
- Personal interview by Pioneer Productions
- Artist feature on Sennelier’s website (venerable supplier of paints to the Impressionists)
- Article about my work in Escape into Life, online art journal.
- Full-page article in Face of Chelmsford culture magazine (UK). Read more…
- Featured on the front cover The Art Guide, February 2010.
- Featured in National Post (Canada) article about the G8 Postcards Exhibit.
- Featured in Poets & Artists self-portrait edition (Fall, 2009)
- Elan Art Prize Winner Press Release
Artist’s Statement
PixelNation ~ Alison Jardine
PixelNation grew from my interest in merging traditional oil painting with digital technology. So many of our memories and so much of our lives are stored, shared and created on the web and digital media that I began to explore the idea that the method of creating the work becomes secondary when the resulting work is translated into a digital image, a collection of pixels that can be turned off, or activated. Is this image of a painting a new work, or just a copy?
Since 2009, I have used the motif of the pixel, representing a core fragment of new culture, to make traditional paintings through the lens of my digital-age aesthetic: back-lit colors and graphical interfaces. My paintings are a new kind of landscape painting; nature, particularly ‘light’ as concept and as a physical phenomenon, is a repeating theme in all my work. This is rooted in the ancient forests and trees of Yorkshire where I was born, and the wide-open wilderness of the Moors, whose stories and dramas forged my visual and artistic identity as I grew.
My process begins with location-based photographs and sketches, or photographs from my own family and past, that I then digitally manipulate and collage. These images might form the basis for a painting or monotype, or be realized as a digital artwork. In my present series, after I have completed an oil painting, I photograph it and digitally manipulate the resulting image. This in turn forms the basis of a new oil painting, and the cycle repeats.
I recently completed a 365-day iPad drawing project, in which I created an unthemed, diaristic iPad drawing each day that I shared on social media. The works existed both for social media and because of it, stored on hundreds of thousands of individual computers when viewed. The social media environment is challenging the notion of an ‘original’ work ~ although I have nominal ownership of the artwork, nothing but the restraint of the viewer prevents them from keeping a copy ~ or it is the original? ~ on their computer.
This project has allowed me to explore the idea of social art as a non-owned object, in which ubiquity has replaced originality as the valuable commodity. I can place this art wherever I want to in our virtual world, and I have no control over what happens to it, or how many times it is reproduced or altered. In fact, endless reproduction becomes a desirable aim.
Any artist’s work reflects their own environment, and mine exists exactly where I do: within nature, and within digital media, and both these worlds are made of light, the unifying motif of my artworks.
— Alison Jardine, February 2011
Born and educated in Yorkshire and London, England, I arrived in Texas in 2003 where I began practicing as a professional artist.
Since winning free studio space in Dallas through an art competition in 2009, I have exhibited locally and nationally, and I recently completed my first public art piece, which is situated on Henderson Avenue in Dallas (2011-2013).
I have authored articles in art magazines, taught art in public schools, and I am the VP of a local non-profit art organization.
Read more about me and my life in these interviews and publications:
- Personal interview with me by Pioneer Productions
- Artist feature on Sennelier’s website (venerable supplier of paints to the Impressionists)
- Article about my work in Escape into Life, online art journal.
