Alison Galvan creates Dada inspired cheeky kinetic mobiles that highlight the humour in humanity.
Bicycle wheels symbolizing the cycles of life form the foundation from which figures as diverse in age as they are in race, sex and ethnicity, are suspended, twisting and swiveling, manipulated by the environment - an echo of our reality. The interplay of the figures and their specific placement speaks to the need to fit in, to conform, while simultaneously carving out our place. Her work is a thought-provoking commentary on our evolution in space and time and the judgements made and spewed both in the physical and digital universe that are so easily done at an anonymous distance. The mobile as a whole represents the elusive dance of ideas that flow from the ether through the artist and out into the physical realm and the recycled newspaper armature at each figure's core represents the secret stories we all hold.
Tall tales unto themselves, designed to catch you off guard, to make you laugh, ultimately, Alison Galvan's work is a study in her own personal growth and illumination of the silliness of our seriousness, poking fun at that which makes us all so very human.
“Memories”
“Perspective”
“Spicy”
“Senior's Aquasize”
“The Bunny Hill”
