Allyson Mitchell


Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working in sculpture, performance, installation and film. Her practice melds feminism and pop culture to investigate contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craft. These articulations have resulted in a coven of lesbian feminist Sasquatch monsters, a room-sized Vagina Dentata, an army of super genius Holly Hobbies and a woodland utopic library complete with a wishing well of forbidden political knowledge.


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Creep Lez

Installation. 2012

Creep Lez investigates queer theory as sculptural material, activist emotions and academic tangles. The work uses text, textile and technology to cut to the quick of wordy theorists with tangled tongues.

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Hungry Purse: The Vagina Dentata in Late Capitalism

Installation. 2004-ongoing

The vagina dentata is an archetype that is found in numerous cultures and geographies over different time periods.

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Micro Maxi-Pad Cinemas

Installation. 2010

These elaborate textile-lined installations are constructed spaces (approximately 150 square feet) in which viewers can watch my films.

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A Girl's Journey to the Well of Forbidden Knowledge

Installation. 2010

Inspired by the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, A girl's journey to the well of forbidden knowledge transforms the gallery space into a lesbian feminist library.

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Ladies Sasquatch

Installation. 2006-2010

Ladies Sasquatch is a large scale installation consisting of six gigantic and 25 smaller she-beast sculptures presented on a stage/platform measuring 10 feet x 10 feet.

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Brain Child

Installation. 2008

Brain Child recontextualizes the kitschy saccharine sweet ceramic figures of 1980s girl-hood to create new possibilities for feminized smarts.

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Fat Craft

Installation. Ongoing

"Fat Craft" is the ongoing cathartic haptic project of realizing fat embodiment in material practice.

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Big Trubs

Installation. 2004

Big Trubs is a hybrid of the Playboy Bunny, the Venus of Willendorf and Roman wartime victory statues.

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The Fluff Stands Alone

Installation. 2003

The Fluff Stands Alone is a series of 2 dimensional wall hangings and bed spreads based on erotica and "dirty joke" cartoons from the 1970's heyday of Playboy Magazine.

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Afghanimation

Video. 2008

Women in Afghan refugee camps make woven rugs that tell a story of war. The intent of these rugs is unclear.

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Foodie

Film. 2008

Born into a murky world, jettisoned into flourescence, Foodie is all emotion, all merchandise, all pressure and all pleasure.

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Unca Trans

Film. 2007

Set in an agrarian future, "Unca Trans" is a short animated Super 8 film in which the title character pontificates about gender theory and activism back in the 2000s.

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If Anyone should Happen To Get In My Way

Film. 2003

This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.

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Glitter

Film. 2003

As two twits dance their fears away at a road side farmers market. Via costumery and choreography, they bring lesbian glamour where it was not ever.

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Precious Little Tiny Love

Film. 2003

An ode by a socially conscious carnivore to creatures that get crunched.

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Bon Bon

Video. 2003

An ode by a socially conscious carnivore to creatures that get crunched.

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