Allison Manasse is a Chicago-based painter whose work focuses on color theory and the emotive qualities of color in an organic and meditative manner. Her work is intuitive, insightful and inspired by in-the-moment choices and reactions. For Allison, painting is an opportunity for self-reflection and a kind of emotional therapy. Her work is driven by experiences and people, particularly those who are no longer alive. Her paintings are filled with colors and moods that reflect her interconnected relationships with people, places, and, for Allison, icons, which emulate those who are significant to her. Allison received her Bachelor's degree in 2007 from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI in Studio Art and Art History. She has shown her work in Appleton as well as Chicago since graduation. While at Lawrence University, Allison's art focused on drawing and figural studies. In Art History she gravitated towards the Abstract Expressionist movement and researched Medieval Church artifacts and architecture, her paintings in many ways reflect the rough but deliberate structures found in Medieval stained glass and illuminated manuscripts. Allison is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Counseling at Northeastern Illinois University with focuses in Education and Family and Marital therapies. Much to her benefit, painting in a manner that often forces her to recall painful and unpleasant events as well has her relationships with others has been beneficial in her counseling studies. She notes that the kind of introspection and self-facing practices she employs in her work has helped her to become a stronger counselor-in-training. Allison's work is a compilation of thoughts, people, events and a desire for a stronger sense of self-awareness by way of a two-dimensional conversation between herself and color.
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