Alison Cooley, a Cape Cod artist living on Nantucket, makes oil paintings that are somewhere between abstraction and representational landscapes. The influences of living near the sea are evident as well, particularly in her choices of color. She says of her paintings:
“My work focuses on memory of spaces. Expansive color planes, shooting and falling lines, and etchings overlap and move within an underlying composition suggestive of landscape. Textures and values interweave to create a suspension of visual spaces reflective of memory construction. As color fields stack and unfurl delicate markings orient the viewer and provide a handle for the eye. This dislocation produced by plane and color is steadied by navigation of line.”
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