MARLBORO — Artist Wilder Alison will present an exhibit of her work and a public lecture at Marlboro College. The exhibit, titled $PLIT/$UBJECT, will be displayed at Marlboro's Snyder Center for the Visual Arts from Oct. 23 to Dec. 1. The talk will be in Appletree Building on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. Both the exhibit and the talk are free and open to the public.
According to a news release, Alison is an interdisciplinary artist and a 2016 graduate of the Bard College Master of Fine Arts in Painting program. Engaging with found visual media and language gleaned largely from authorless sources, Alison's work “elaborates how pairing texts and images can subtly subvert - rather than encourage - the production of discrete identifications and narrative coherence. Through painting, screen-printing, textiles, photography, and music, Alison frames contemporary questions about labor, madness, gender, and sexuality.”
In $PLIT/$UBJECT, Wilder Alison presents 10 wool paintings and one video exploring the theme of “articulation.”
“Numerous boundaries are at play here, where cuts are also sites of attachment: an articulation,” Alison says in her artist's statement. “Welcome to the alter-ego of the split subject. Not only the pairing of articles - textiles or texts - an articulation is also a connection, a joint, that implies speech.”
In recent years, Alison has exhibited work in New York at CUE Foundation, 247365, Rachel Uffner, Culture Room, Primetime, and Garden Party Arts, among others.
Alison has apprenticed at the Fabric Workshop & Museum and has participated in residencies at the Lighthouse Works, Real Time & Space, Ox-Bow, Fire Island Artist Residency, and the Lower East Side Printshop. In 2016-17, Alison was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she returns for a second-year fellowship in 2018-19.