Member Spotlight: šŸ”¦ Alison Nitkiewicz

Website: Ā www.alisonnitkiewicz.com

Alison Nitkiewicz is a silkscreen and installation artist living in Providence, RI. She is interested in large-scale installation.

Alison is aĀ  member at AS220, where she uses the community printshop and other resources to create her work. In the past, Alison has used the Industries to create her nstallation for the Dirt Palace’sĀ revolving window gallery project.

She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Printmaking in 2013. Since June of 2013,Ā Alison has been a member of the Dirt Palace, a 15-year-oldĀ feminist art collective in Olneyville.

“My own artwork deals with embodiment, queerness and aggressive femininity. ” – Alison

Most recently, Alison usedĀ resources to create an original wallpaper to be installed at the latest Dirt Place public project, the Wedding Cake House.Ā  Alison designed intricate 4-color repeating design for her wallpaper.Ā The design was inspired by textiles from the RISD museum Tirocchi collection.Ā Although, she handprinted all of the wallpaper at her home studio, Alison utilized our large format inkjet printerĀ in our media arts space to produce her films.

Pictarico films separated into Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and BlacK

four color print, CMYK

repeatingĀ patternsĀ 

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wedding cake