Born in 1982 in New York, Alison Judd is a Boston-based painter, printmaker and curator. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Art History from Brandeis University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. In 2019, she founded Gallery Tempo, showcasing local artists through pop-up gallery shows at available retail spaces in Greater Boston.

Rooted in the everyday, my abstract paintings and prints use texture, color and form to embody the fantastical and imaginative landscapes of memory, vibrant and blurry at the same time.

I make images that are built up with layers of colorful paints and inks. I transform the flat surface of the rectangle to yield depth and atmosphere. Leaflike forms are layered to reveal spaces beyond. Some compositions dance between aerial and vertical – reading as a flat, reflective pond that reveals patterns on a glassy surface, or perhaps tree limbs one might push aside to step through a portal comprised of a silhouette of leaves.

I collect mementos – dying leaves, flowers, sand, photographs, drawings from my children, shells, rocks – to use as references in the studio. These souvenirs are vestiges of the everyday. They provide access to my past and a bridge to the present.

This work becomes an indexical marker of moment and place in my mind. I explore ideas of absence and presence, what becomes revealed and what remains hidden. Tranquil, disruptive, intimate, or routine, memories blur over time, sometimes leaving only a remnant of the place and moment in which they occurred.

Memory, moments, mementos and my intuitive process intersect in my studio, to form abstractions of time and place.