Alyson Provax (California, 1984)

Alyson Provax is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. She is interested in loneliness, uncertainty and memory. She uses the tools of printmaking, and her work has been described as “printmaking disinterested in the perfection based traditions that exist as a form of exclusion.” She often uses repetition as a drawing tool rather than to make multiple originals, and calls into question the certainty of a text with its visual presentation. She has shown regionally at Agenda, Archer Gallery, 1122 Outside, Upfor Gallery, Wolff Gallery, and the Whatcom Museum, nationally at A.I.R. Gallery and The Untitled Space in New York, and internationally at the Blueproject Foundation in Barcelona. She is also a member of the Portland-based Well Well Projects. She has an interest in alternative projects as well, and in 2020 held an exhibition with Archer Gallery entirely via mail and the internet. In 2019 she created a room with animations, blankets, and vinyl text for amplifier a one-night immersive art experience in Portland curated by Blake Shell. In 2018 she made letterpress billboard works shown in Seattle for Vignettes and Gramma’s A LONE, and again in 2019 for something nameless in Portland, and in 2020 for Montalvo Arts Center’s lone some.