June 2022 - Alix Hallman Travis

We invite you to Art Gallery 71 for a show featuring the work of artist
Alix Hallman Travis
June 10th - July 3rd
Reception June 11th, 3 - 6 pm

Alix Hallman Travis, Bringing the Outdoors In, Oil on canvas, 30X36 inches

ALIX HALLMAN TRAVIS
She Dreams in Yellow

Visitors to the Travis studio often make the same comment: “Your work is so happy”. It is true--Alix is a happy person and tends to see the world through yellow, red, pink glasses. And Alix seems to look for occasions, expected and unexpected, to use the many varieties of “bright” to make her work dance across the canvas.

Her painting mediums and tools change with the passage of the seasons. Spring and summer’s warm weather propels her outside to paint alla prima, en plein air using brushes with watercolor. In the fall she moves into her studio to sculpt oil paints with the palette knife, often using the watercolor paintings from past summers to influence, expand, and inspire the subject matter of the new paintings.

Alix is not interested in recreating a faithful record of what is before her and does not take photographs, instead she depends on sketches, the earlier watercolor paintings, her imagination and memory to create the fanciful compositions that reflect the mood and aura of a particular area or moment.

Alix began her art education at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio followed by study at The Art Students League of New York, where she was awarded the Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship Award, a merit award for study abroad. She has earned signature status in the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, has exhibited in galleries in the Eastern United States, and has been juried into national and international exhibitions.

In this exhibition, the brightest colors - running the gamut from the red, orange to green and sunny day blues - can be found in the works of the figure, landscape, or a memory. All will make you smile.

To see more of Alix's work: http://www.alixhtravis.com