Julie Alland
Functional objects carry intimate associations and have the potential for personification. I like to rob utilitarian objects of their purpose to induce states of mind and emotion such as absurdity, playfulness and nostalgia.
People have an internal "Rosetta Stone", chiseled by the hands that brought them up, eroded and polished by the impact of their life experiences. I think of my sculptures as three-dimensional hieroglyphics. I welcome the possibility that nuances of my pictorial language may be deciphered and interpreted differently from person to person.
I grew up in New York State and moved to San Francisco in 1985. My work is included in numerous private collections and has been shown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure Gallery, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and many other venues.
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