About the Artist

Allison Watkins is a visual artist who currently explores our perceptions of materiality through her photography and mixed media artworks. She is interested in documenting the instability of all forms and how our grasp of and relationships to these forms change throughout time. Allison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BFA from San Jose Sate University and earned her MFA from San Francisco State University. Her works have been shown in the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Camerawork, and The Textile Art Center in New York. Recently Allison's work was chosen by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Janet Bishop to be included in New American Paintings issue 109. Allison currently makes her home in Sonoma County, California, where she teaches fine art photography at Sonoma State University.