Allison Long Hardy @ artavita

Allison Long Hardy

Allison Long Hardy was born and raised in Frederick, MD. She received her BA in Intermedia from West Virginia Wesleyan College and her MFA from Towson University where she concentrated in painting. In the fall of 2010 Allison started teaching at Northern Virginia Community College and
University of Mary Washington as an adjunct professor. She teaches everything from Drawing I to Design Principles, to Painting I and Special Studies. She currently lives and has a studio in Woodbridge, VA.

Allison’s work has been exhibited nationally. Most recently, Allison’s work was featured in a solo exhibition at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA titled Crowded Spaces and McDaniel College in Westminster, MD titled Engulfed. Her work is in the collections of PNC Bank in Washington, DC and on the set of The Good Wife which airs on CBS.

Portfolio:

Ordered Chaos

I am interested in how people communicate: effectively and ineffectively. Communication is the one thing that binds us all together, the one common thread that must continue. Without communication what else do we have? When making work I am interested in the certain moments that communication or lack of communication occur and interpreting those moments through mark. What interests me most is when the marks that emerge on the page overlap and meld with the marks below or on top and create their own type of mark, something that I had not planned. My work is a mix of intuitive and deliberate mark making paired with the spontaneity that occurs when these marks overlap.

“Dissolve”