March Featured Artist: Alyson Provax

Our opening reception for Alyson Provax's new exhibit will take place Friday, April 11th from 5-8pm at Mint Gallery Records. Drinks, music, art and community on hand for a great evening. See you there!

IT’S LIKE YOU KNOW HOW YOU KNOW

Alyson Provax is a text based artist. Her primary medium is letterpress and she often uses repetition as a drawing tool rather than to make multiple originals. Her work has been described as “printmaking disinterested in the perfection based traditions that exist as a form of exclusion.” She uses repetition to question the certainty of text as a medium and is interested in the viewer noticing the experience of reading. She is interested in the ways that we communicate things we are a bit uncertain of and how we tie our understanding of ourselves to language. 

She has shown regionally at 1122, Agenda, Carnation Contemporary, Eugene Contemporary Art, Upfor Gallery, The Vestibule, Well Well Projects, and the Whatcom Museum, nationally at A.I.R. Gallery and San Francisco Center for the Book, and internationally at the Blueproject Foundation in Barcelona. 

She has an interest in alternative projects and produced letterpress billboard works for Vignettes and Gramma’s A LONE, and for Montalvo Arts Center’s lone some.

Her work has been published in the Buckman Journal, Berm, Poetry Northwest, and The Racket. Her first book was published by Volumes Volumes in 2019, and in 2023 her second book was published by National Monument Press. Her work can be found in the collection of SFMOMA Library and Harvard University Library.