Allison Zuckerman

Born in 1990 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Allison Zuckerman started painting when she was four or five years old. She quickly began taking art history and painting lessons to follow in the footsteps of her older sister. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 and soon moved to New York, where her "studio," a corner of her bedroom, increasingly resembled the frantic works she was producing.

She began posting her works regularly on Instagram and was soon noticed. In a sense, her paintings are meant to appear online; they begin as digital collages: she cuts out pieces of images, many of which are from famous paintings, manipulates them in Photoshop, prints them on canvas, and paints over them. Sometimes, she cuts out parts of her own work and uses them in subsequent compositions. The result is images composed partly of collage and partly of painting, perfectly reflecting our current society, filled with distractions and the Internet.

In the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection, the 2017 work *Resting Hero* best represents her style: the juxtaposition of colorful pop images with references to art history recalls other young artists like Jamian Juliano-Villani, Marc Horowitz, or photographer Daniel Gordon. But her approach feels more musical: a mash-up or a hip-hop track that samples and layers multiple songs, often without the creator's permission.

As Zuckerman herself says: "To me, it evokes the idea that we live in an era where everything is out there, and you can post and repost someone’s photo... it’s like the Wild West."