i’m allyson. you can call me al. i’ve spent a fair amount of time lately reading the bios of various artists, from the infamous to the obscure. most of them sound professional. i decided that if i was going to have a bio, it was going to sound like me.

i went to fancy-pants contemporary art school. while i was there, i tried to be: intellectual, deeply meaningful, cutting edge, praiseworthy. usually, i failed. it took a long time for me to remember that making art, thinking about art, is fun. but fun is a deceptive word. or maybe it is the wrong word. making art allows every day to be meaningful even as it is heartbreak and alienating. a vast landscape without a map.

i love antiquated technologies, maps, graphs—especially if they explicate the abstract, the complicated or the inexplicable. i am not a big fan of capitalization, paragraphs or pencils. i am currently listening to the decemberists.

i teach photography and art history to high school students. i used to be an english teacher. all of my sentence fragments are intentional. i detest talking on the phone. i enjoy drinking maker’s mark neat at the Latin American. sometimes i have a margarita. i live in san francisco.

you can reach me at allyson (at) allysonseal (dot) com.

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