Allison Meriwether’s paintings and drawing explore deeper self expressions of identity and focus on capturing themes in emotional experiences and story telling. Her current body of work, “Firsthand” is a group of oil paintings depicting hands accompanied by gold leafing that tell stories about our identity, our daily lives and our purpose for existing in a space.
Allison attended graduate school at New York University and Long Island University to obtain a master’s degree in fine arts. She now creates full-time in her Knoxville studio and teaches at a local high school. Her work has been shown in several galleries in New York, Boston, Texas, Florida, Oregon, Alabama, and Washington, DC. She has exhibited internationally in galleries in Seoul, Korea. Select pieces of her work are on permanent display at the Osceola Center for the Arts in Kissimmee, Florida and at the RCA Gallery in Washington, DC. She is a member of the Cambridge Art Association and the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville.
