Allison Kotzig's work is intriguing because of its focus on mystery, impermanence, myth, feminine power, fertility, and cyclicality, and also because much of her practice involves social justice issues. This Tuesday night at Art Salon, we'll have a chance to meet her and hear about the thinking behind her work as an installation, video and mixed media artist who works and shows internationally. Bones, branches, and other found objects, both natural and human-made, are used, along with video, paint, embroidery, hide, and board, often in sculptural and room sized installations. Her video work explores dream and trance states brought about by light reflection and movement as they relate to identity, transformation, mystery and transcendental experience. Her work is rooted in the mysteries of the forest, dream states, social protest and womanism.
In the USA, Kotzig has recently shown work at The Box Gallery and “Unleashed” at the New Arts Venue in West Palm Beach, Art Fort Lauderdale, the Projects in FAT Village, Fort Lauderdale, “Resurrecting Venus” at The Amadlozi Gallery, Miami and numerous other locations. Later this year, she'll be showing work at the Eissey Campus Art Gallery of Palm Beach State College. Internationally, she’s had a solo shows organized by the Embassy of Ireland in Bratislava as well as with Beddington Gallery in France. She often shows work in service of cancer research with Gemlucart in Monaco. Her video work has been screened in Spain, Bangkok, Venice, Rome, Naples, France, as well as in many locations within the United States.
After leaving school and striking out on her own to explore the world as a young punk rock feminist at age 15, Allison Kotzig lived in her car in a protracted journey across the United States. After returning to school, studying Neuropsychology and getting a MA in Medieval History from Dublin's Trinity College, she now splits her time between Miami and Slovakia. In Slovakia, she helps run an Inn and organic slow food restaurant. She is a co-founder of the Slovak-based cook4refugee, which cooks and delivers food to refugees, and of the Miami-based collective Artists For Black Lives Matter.
ALLISON KOTZIG'S WEB SITE
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