News
I am super excited and very grateful to share this wonderful news. I have been awarded a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Thank you to the Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Vermont Community Foundation. The grant will support the creation of three large-scale paintings.
FY2024 Creation Grant
ITERANT, Quarterly Poetry & Art, online and in print, 2023
Arista Alanis join the VSC staff in 1995, for the past twenty years she has been the School Arts Coordinator in partnership with Johnson Elementary School. Arista spends her time between teaching, painting, and running. If Arista is not getting messy encouraging the creative process with young artists in the classroom then she can be found in her own studio painting, a part of her routine.
Arista Alanis’ gestural paintings and monoprints derive from the landscape. Although they are inspired by her experiences in Vermont, Maine, Costa Rica, and other places she has visited during her travels, her work is not direct representations. Rather, they are abstractions where light and color create a sense of place, and a feeling, sensation or mood about her encounter with the natural environment is conveyed. Alanis states: “The artwork is not about specific places, but about significant moments that ignite a feeling of being alive in the space. The formal structures of nature directly experienced or recalled, give my work the solid foundation upon which I improvise abstractions.”
Arista Alanis work has exhibited nationally since 1989. Most recently, her paintings were show in Mountain at Collioure, organized by Jared Quinton, and in 2019, Made in Vermont, at the Hall Art Foundation. Arista is currently focusing on a suite of monoprints, Aegean Sea, moments from her most recent travels to Greece. She plans to incorporate this series into an exhibition and book. To learn more about her art at www.aristalanis.com and to see the progress of her monoprints and paintings on social media @rista17.
Mountains at Collioure
Organized by Jared Quinton
March 4 – April 10, 2022
Opening reception:
Friday, March 4, 4-7pm
89 S Main St
White River Junction, VT
Mountains at Collioure is a pop-up exhibition organized by Jared Quinton in historic downtown White River Junction, Vermont. The title is borrowed from a 1905 painting by André Derain, which he made while summering with Henri Matisse near a Mediterranean port town. This exhibition brings together a group of five artists working loosely in the fauvist landscape tradition: Arista Alanis (Johnson, VT), Neil Berger (Shelburne, VT), Mariel Capanna (Williamstown, MA), Clark Derbes (Charlotte, VT), and Lily Prince (Hudson Valley, NY). With expansive palettes and intimate attunement to the many ways paint can sit on a surface, these artists have each developed their own language for rendering emotionally charged experiences of the landscape, both real and imagined.
The exhibition is on view from March 4 to April 10, 2022. There will
be an opening reception on Friday March 4 from 4-7pm, to coincide
with “First Fridays” in White River Junction.
Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 12–5pm. Please email
info@jaredquinton.net for more information or to schedule an
appointment outside of regular hours.
St J Art on the Street, Catamount Arts, March 6 - May 28, 2021
https://www.catamountarts.org/community-art-outreach/stj-art-on-the-street/
Painters TUBES Magazine, Issue #5, "Landscapes...before Poussin and today", Editor Denis Taylor, November 2017, Studio 5 Sweden, UK https://painterstubes.com/issues-1-to-4-links-to-read-on-line/
"...on down the road", oil on canvas, 30" x 24", the cover of "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude", a full-length poetry manuscript by poet Ross Gay, 2015 http://rossgay.net/
Seven paintings out of the studio...four person exhibition at Vermont Contemporary Art Space, July 16 - September 6, 2016, Stowe, VT
The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, NY, June 21 - July 16, 2016 http://www.thepaintingcenter.org/exhibitions/retrieval-beautiful
LUCK OF THE DRAW (vol. 1), a survey show of contemporary drawings curated by Trent Miller, January 8 - February 26, 2016, Diane Endres Ballweg Gallery, Central Madison Public Library, Madison, WI
https://madisonbubbler.org/luckofthedraw
COLORED MUD a painting exhibition curated by Kayla Mohammadi, November 14 & 15, 2015 at Fenway Studios...Boston https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472180109775338/
"River Works", Group Exhibition at The Gallery at River Arts, Morrisville, VT May 7 - July 30, 2015 http://www.riverartsvt.org/event/the-gallery-at-river-arts-river-works/
"21 & Counting: The Painting Center Turns 21!", NY, November 25 - December 20, 2014 http://thepaintingcenter.org/exhibitions/21-counting-painting-center-turns-21 , http://thepaintingcenter21stanniversary.tumblr.com/
"Arista", part of an ongoing project by Monica Jane Frisell, 2014 https://vimeo.com/91197410 http://www.laundromatportraits.tumblr.com/
studio photo by Warren Buckles 2014