"See The Forest" -
May Visiting Artist
The concept for her piece originates from Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder, a groundbreaking book written in 1965 on the importance of valuing and appreciating nature. Rachel Carson has been called the "Mother of Environmentalism" for her sensitive and eye-opening insights about nature and the importance of conservation. Allison will create an installation using 30 - 8" circular galvanized steel end caps silkscreened with text phrases inspired by Carson's work that connect the nature, the viewer and the site in tribute to the wonder of nature. These "buttons" will be attached to a grove of trees, and will be accompanied with a small booklet with the original Carson text, along with a map of the installation sites to help tie the experience of looking with the original message of conservation and ecology. This activity of looking at nature perhaps to see it through fresh eyes is the very message of The Sense of Wonder, and the sculpture itself. The "nature as a source of wonder" message combined with their intimate positioning on the natural elements on the site come together to form a tribute to the renewal, transformation, and living entity of nature.
Allison Warren’s work examines spatial relationships in the built and natural environment. Through drawings, and sculptural constructs, the work asks us to reconsider everyday spatial experiences in an effort to reconnect, bind together, and regenerate their symbolic, cultural, or visual impact. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including shows at Fred Kline Gallery (Santa Fe), Lemburg Gallery (Michigan), Orange County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), MPG Contemporary (Boston), Georgetown Collage (Kentucky), and Art Gallery of Windsor (Canada). She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Warren holds a joint faculty appointment in Architecture and Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this academic context, Warren is involved in finding and integrating multi-disciplinary relationships between architecture, art, and design methodologies at the undergraduate level through teaching, student-lead project research, and writing.
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Sense of Wonder (For Rachel) 2007
Fabric & Thread
This project, created to accompany the changing foliage colors in Vermont, seeks to heighten awareness and appriciation of the cycle of seasons. The wrapped trees offer a brief visual intervention in order that they may become activated in the landscape.
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Mine, 2002
Cranbrook Research Library
Vinyl Lettering on Four Desks
36” x 48” x 4’ each
This installation examines the space of a research library, four desks are inscribed with 16 words decribing the activity of mining. The words, which are placed on the library’s desks, the site of research, make a parallel between these two activities. The physical and mental activity that takes place in a library context are activated.
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Crossing, 2007
Epoxy Ink on Limestone
2.5” x 9” x 34’
“Crossing” forms a literal and figurative journey of the Self through the campus of GeorgeTown College in Kentucky. Viewers undergo a pyshological transformation as they walk along the long plank composed of seventeen limestone pieces silkscreened with an adaptation of Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of the Open Road.”
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