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Meehan, Alisoun/ ARTISTS 1900-PRESENT
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American artist (b. 1970, Washington, D.C. Lives NYC) |
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Smith and Wollensky |
Bleeker Street red |
Alisoun Meehan is an artist and independent curator of alternative art
exhibitions. Raised in Washington, D.C, she graduated from Bard College with
a BA in fine arts, moved to New Orleans, and for the past thirteen years she
been living in New York City. Obsessed with food and street culture, Alisoun
draws oversized portraits of meat and images of the market place with
special interest in the window displays of NYC's Chinatown.
As independent curator, her on-going food themed series called “Dining Haul”
has exhibited in both galleries and in venues such as a fleet of moving
trucks parked on 24th Street in Chelsea, vacant meat lockers in the MPD, 4
Star restaurants in Tribeca, the U.N., pastry kitchens, transforming them
into temporary gallery spaces; organizing collaborations between a slew of
multi-media artists, chefs, musicians, and writers, always working to
include neighbourhood participation. In 2003 she produced “The Gun & Wound
Show,” an exhibition in opposition to the US invasion of Iraq. Over the
years, she has curated for White Box: Annex however Alisoun maintains an
avid interest in alternative public spaces. |
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Chocolate Truffles |
Open Neon |
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Chef Grafitti,
chalk pastel on paper, 51 x 120" |
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Cochon Ball: A Pig Field Folly | |
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Artist Alisoun Meehan combines a pig roast with a
human-scale foosball contest
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