Helen Allois

ALLOIS “My work combines untamed energy of the open sea and disturbing familiarity of alien entities. I invite you to fly into my Dream. I want to take you inside, deep inside. And we are taking the outside with us; we are taking it all with us… all the faces, all the mirrors, all the reflections. And when we let it out into the real world, it will feel familiar, but it won’t be.” Allois BLUE CHIP ARTIST ALLOIS / POST INDUSTRIAL RENAISSANCE “Allois’ list of collectors include Hollywood luminaries such as Joss Whedon, Clare Grant and Seth Green, Joanna Cassidy, Dorsay Alavi and Matthew Flint” Hollywood Weekly, March 2018 In 2019 Allois received grants from prestigious Pollock Krasner Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation. In 2018 Allois received Gil Borgos award from the City of Beverly Hills. ALLOIS: PERSONAGES “Allois paints presences. Her figures manifest conditions, sliding away from personality and into mood. A particular character may present itself as a child or adult, man or beast, but its identity gives way almost immediately to its nuance. Mourners are not just sad; they become sadness. Nudes cavorting with animals are not just modest; they become modesty itself. Personages making their way through a landscape come to embody self-containment, self-absorption. This is real abstraction, dissolution of the seen into the sensed. The humanoids (and animoids) Allois paints exhibit many of the same distortions and contortions that we see in so much current “lowbrow,” or “newbrow,” painting. But instead of employing an illustrator’s insistent descriptive precision, so prevalent in “newbrow,” Allois engages the brush and palette of a modern painter, luminously impressionist, impetuously expressionist, oddly surrealist, providing her characters with soul even as she compromises their visual substance – indeed, by compromising that substance. She renders her figures vaguely, but they are not vague; as ciphers for sensations and sensibilities, they must be fuzzy to the eye in order to be credible to the heart. Do Allois’ characters and creatures tell stories? Of a sort; they are active, always engaged in doing something. But before their efforts harden into events, they evolve into a dream state where purpose fades into symbol. Do they seem like fugitives from a children’s book, or a comic strip? They seem related to such storytelling formats, but resist telling such stories. They are fugitives only from Allois’ own imagination – or from her own dreams. Some seem so primitive, so atavistic, that they ring some far-off bell of familiarity in our minds. Some seem not simply alien but related to the alien caricature that has suffused through our popular culture – the slight bodies, swollen hairless heads, huge slit eyes and pointy chins taking off from the description provided by witnesses to the “autopsies” supposedly performed on spacemen by the U.S. Army at Los Alamos in the late 1940s. These figures, then, are others and at the same time are us. They don’t simply constitute Allois’ cast of characters; they stand in for any of us. The yogic construct of the soul is as a tiny homunculus seated or curled at the base of the heart. This must be the homunculus with whom, in many variations, Allois populates her canvases”. Peter Frank Los Angeles Peter Frank is an American art critic ABOUT ALLOIS Born in Lutherstad Wittenberg, Germany 1969. Raised in Wittenberg, Germany and Legnica, Poland 1969-1989 Education: National Academy of Art, Ukraine, 1993. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions 2020 25th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station – Santa Monica, California 2019 Palm Springs Modernism, Flower & Hewes gallery, Santa Monica, California 2019 24rd Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station – Santa Monica, California 2018 “Flying Dutchman” curated by Six Summit Gallery at Copper Beech Inn, May 13 – November 13, 2018 2018 “Stranger Than Fiction” by bG Gallery, April 15 - May 15 2018 LA Fashion Week, VIP show, March 12 -16 2018 23rd Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station – Santa Monica, California 2017 Solo Show “Nothing but Dreaming” at bG Gallery, November 18 – December 13 2017 LAAA Annual Benefit Auction 2017 CASA Wine + Art/ Auction February 25th 2017 Art Hearts Fashion 2017, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, March 14 – 17 2017 22nd Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California LA ART SHOW, presented by bG Gallery, Los Angeles 2016 21st Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California LA ART SHOW, presented by bG Gallery, Los Angeles 2016 LAAA Annual Benefit Auction 2016 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Multiworlds”, Santa Monica, California 2016 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Grayscale Wonderland II”, Santa Monica, California 2016 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Summer Group Exhibition”, Santa Monica, California 2015-16 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Gifted”, Santa Monica, California 2015 20th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2015 – Solo Show ‘No Particular Night or Morning’ Nov. 14 -December 9, bG Gallery, Santa Monica 2015 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “144”, Santa Monica, California 2014 Schomburg Gallery, “Poetry in Colors”, MAA Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2014 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Spectrum-Gestalt”, Santa Monica, California 2014 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman) – Ocean Avenue, “Orgone Accumulators”, Santa Monica California 2014 19th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2013-2014 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman), “From Big Things, Little Things Grow”, Santa Monica, California 2013 Schomburg Gallery at Bergamot Station, “Winter Spirit”, MAA Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2013 18th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, Project Space, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2013 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman), “Objectified II”, Santa Monica, California 2013 Schomburg Gallery at Bergamot Station, “Still Life and Beyond”, MAA Juried Group Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2013 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman), “Winter Tides”, Santa Monica, California 2012 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Play Space”, Santa Monica, California 2012 17th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, Project Space, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2012 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Play Space”, Santa Monica, California 2012 – Solo Show, Jean Marc Gallery, Los Angeles 2012 Bleicher Gallery La Brea Anniversary Exhibition, Los Angeles, California 2012 Bleicher Gallery La Brea, “Print x Print”, Los Angeles, California 2012 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Sound Works”, Santa Monica, California 2012 Schomburg Gallery at Bergamot Station, “Enchanted Spaces”, MAA Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2011 Bleicher Gallery La Brea, “Soft Machine UT”, Los Angeles, California 2011 Bleicher/Golightly and Hamilton Galleries, “Animal Magnetism”, Santa Monica, California 2011 Solo Show, Jean Marc Gallery, Los Angeles 2011 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Scapes I”, Santa Monica, California 2011 – Solo Show, Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 – Solo Show, Jean Marc Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 – Bleicher/Golightly Galler 2010 – Bleicher Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 – Solo Show, Canvas Gallery, Malibu, CA 2009 – Solo Show, Icosahedron Gallerie, New York 2008 – Solo Show, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica 2008 – Solo Show, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA 2008 – Solo Show, Icosahedron Gallerie, New York 2007 – Solo Show, Montserrat Gallery, New York 2007 – Nancy MargolisGalery, New York 2007 – Solo Show, Icosahedron Gallerie, New York 2007 – Solo Show, Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles 2007 – Solo Show, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica 2006 – Solo Show, Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles 2005 – Solo Show, Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles 2005 – “Life in Contrast,” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles 2005 – Solo Show, Montserrat Gallery, New York 2004 – “Unity & Diversity 2,” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles 2003 – “Unity & Diversity 1,” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles PROJECTS Fine Art Novel “THE BLACK GONDOLIER” by Fritz Leiber. Animation “THE BLACK GONDOLIER” by MTV. PUBLICATIONS Book: Fine Art Novel “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II” by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Allois, Gauntlet Press 2010 MIDLIFE DRAMA by Irit Kedem, Publishing House of General Union of Writers in Israel 2008 (Cover Illustration by Allois) Hollywood Weekly, September 2018 “C & G the Theater of Earth” Hollywood Weekly, January 2019 “A Ceremony of Innocence. Golden Globe Winner Joanna Cassidy Receives her Portrait by Allois at Los Angeles Fashion Week” Hollywood Weekly, June 2018 “Art Exhibited in Open Spaces from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Allois” Hollywood Weekly, Royal Wedding Edition, June 17th, 2018 “Allois Sensational, Sensual, Surrealist Portrait of Miss Quatemalla Delights” Hollywood Weekly, April 8, 2018 “Allois Transdenting Surreal Realm, Hollywood Style” Hollywood Weekly, March 13, 2018 “A Rising Star in Hollywood Scene” Malibu Surfside News, February 8, 2018 “Malibu Artist Brings Fresh Perspective to Local Shows” Malibu Times, November 24, 2017, week’s People section Malibu Surfside News, February 1, 2017 “A creative wonderland” Malibu Surfside News, November 23, 2016 “Come a little closer” Malibu Times, July 28, 2016, week’s People section Malibu Times, February 4, 2016, week’s People section Malibu Surfside News, November 23, 2016 “Inspiration abounds at Malibu’s Flower & Hewes” Malibu Times, November 5, 2015, week’s People section 2015 ART News, September 2005 Artist Interviews Magazine 2005 Malibu News February 12 2004, week’s People section Artis Spectrum vol.12 2004 REPRESENTATION: bG Gallery, Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Avenue Space G8A Santa Monica, CA 90404 Ph: 310-906-4211 info@bgartdealings.com Brekelle Lavee Long (Art agent in Miami, USA) Flower & Hewes Gallery Ph: 786-296-5655 www.flowerandhewes.com Leo Feroleto (Art agent in NY, USA) Ph: 917-573-0029 www.sixsummitgallery.com