North 195, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

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.

EXHIBITIONS

2007
Solo Exhibition, Hoadley Gallery, Lenox MA

2006
Solo Exhibition, Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket MA
Solo Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Solo Exhibition, Page Waterman Gallery, Wellesley MA
"All Paintings Great & Small," Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme CT

2005
Solo Exhibition, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
Two Person Exhibition, Page Waterman Gallery, Wellesley MA
Two Person Exhibition, Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA
"The Art Colony on Nantucket: 60 Years of Contemporary Art,"
Egan Institute of Maritime Studies, Nantucket MA

2004
Solo Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Solo Exhibition, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
Two Person Exhibition, Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA
"Nantucket in SOHO," Studio di Modica, New York NY
"Artweek 2004," Choral Arts Society, Baltimore MD

2003
Two Person Exhibition, Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA
Group Exhibition, Page Waterman Gallery, Wellesley MA

2002
Two Person Exhibition, Whitlock Gallery, Nantucket MA

2001
Solo Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Featured Artist Exhibition, AAN Gallery, Nantucket MA
Group Exhibition, South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket MA

2000
Group Exhibition, South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket MA
"Art in the Parlor" Group Exhibition, Nantucket MA

1999
"Work, Work, Work" Group Exhibition, New Gallery, Nantucket MA
"Art in the Park" Group Exhibition, Nantucket MA

EDUCATION
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY
Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006
"400 Notable People on the Cape & Islands," Cape Cod Life
"Beauty of Cooley's Work in Eye of Beholder," Inquirer & Mirror
"Arts Record: Cooley's Azores Influence," Nantucket Independent

2005
"Forty Under 40," Nantucket Independent
"Alison Hall Cooley at Calloway," The Georgetowner
"Landscape & Atmosphere: Alison Hall Cooley's Intuitive Interest,"
Nantucket Independent
"Recent Shows, Surprises, and New Directions," Yesterday's Island

2004
"Abstract Painting & Sculpture: A Perfect Pair," Inquirer & Mirror
"Artists Making It Work," Nantucket Independent

2003
"At Work in the Fortress of Mystery," Nantucket Magazine
"Navigations Through Open Space," Cape Cod Life
"Art Wharves - North and South," Yesterday's Island
"Tips & Techniques: Artist Studiology," Yesterday's Island

2002
"Making Marks," Yesterday's Island

2001
"Parsing Out the Planes: A Talk with Alison Hall Cooley," Yesterday's Island
"Refugees of August: Stand Out Paintings You Should See," Yesterday's Island