Alison Carey

Biography

From http://www.alisoncarey.com/
"In my studio I create fictitious environments as room-sized installations. These recreations play upon the mythology of this landscape, bringing ancient creatures and buried treasures back to the Earths surface for humanity to explore. When making choices of what to say about the Earth, my passion lies with the forces of creation, and the effects it has had over the immensity of time. Earths ancient epochs interest me because they are absent from human recollection and experience. As scientists reconstruct the past they are faced with gaps of missing information, resulting in an interpretation that is based on science and imagination. This lack of evidence is my artistic license to build and photograph a vanished world the way I imagine it to have been."

Alison Carey received her M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, her M.S. in Art from Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. and B.F.A. from School of Visual Arts, New York City. She has shown at Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York City; Roswell Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, NM; Mariani Gallery, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; Weitman Gallery of Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; and more.