About

Alison Balcanoff is an artist working primarily with paper. Most often, her work uses a minimal palette—often just the white of the paper—to focus on light and shadow. By sculpting or removing bits of paper through folding, burning, or cutting, Alison plays with negative space to create three-dimensional drawings. Each drawing develops organically as a result of a meticulous, yet meditative, process of repeated mark-making.

Alison graduated from the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University with her BFA in Fine Arts and obtained her MA in Art History and Museum Studies Certification from Northern Illinois University. Having worked with the preservation of museum collections, Alison brings a unique sensitivity to and awareness of materials to her artistic practice.