Alison Pruchansky: Her Art 'Flowers' in Somerville
By Doug Holder
There is a certain vibe in the Bloc 11
Cafe in Union Square, Somerville. You can expect the excited screams
of kids with their beleaguered parents in quick pursuit, as the tykes
explore the inviting jail cell in the back of the cafe. There are the
catcalls from the baristas to the patrons to pick up their fare.
There is the smoky and scratched voice of Louis Armstrong singing “
Baby it's cold outside” on a warm morning in May. And on this
morning Alison Pruchansky joined me at my table with the remnants of
my morning repast—smoked mackerel, a plain, pedestrian bagel—with
artisanal tomatoes-- brushed off to the side.
Alsion Pruchansky is a Somerville
artist who has a studio at the Vernon St. Studios. She has her own
business Ample Art and Design where she now primarily works with
corporate clients to select art—often her own—to add to the
interior design of their offices. She also works a a gallery
coordinator at the Chase Gallery in Boston.
Pruchansky has been trained as an
artist at Swarthmore and the Sotheby Institute of Art in London. She
does mixed media painting on canvas. I viewed a selection of her
small canvases. They primarily focus on flowers. They seem like a
dream of florid blossoms, heightened by the backgrounds-- that seem
to almost lift the work off the canvas. Her use of vivid color
engages the eye.
Pruchansky is mostly a painter. She
uses acrylics, watercolors, puffy paints and the like, and
experiments with them.
Living in Somerville and working at the
Vernon Street Studios with a number of accomplished artists—surely
helps her own art.
Pruchanksy shares her concern with the
cost of housing in Somerville. She has noticed the displacement of a
number of artists because of gentrification, and hopes to some extent
this will abate.
She is engaged in the art community.
She is the Asst. Coordinator for Somerville Open Studios, and has
bought a home with her husband in the city. Like her painting,
Pruchanksy is sure to flower—here--in-- the Paris of New England.
For more information go to:
http://ampleartdesign.com
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