Alison McMahon
Featured in the following exhibitions:
Up In Smoke explored smoke as both subject and metaphor: transformation, ritual, rebellion, celebration, escape, destruction, healing, memory, and impermanence. Featuring artists working across a wide range of media, the exhibition embraced the cultural, political, medicinal, and symbolic meanings of smoke without prescribing a single narrative.
Throughout history, artists have documented injustice, challenged power, inspired movements, and given shape to ideas that words alone could not express. Protest: The Art of Activism celebrated that legacy through a powerful exhibition of contemporary protest art and activist artwork from more than 60 artists working across Southern California and beyond.
Mommy Dearest explored the broken, bizarre, painful and occasionally hilarious realities of family life. Through painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture and mixed media, the exhibition confronted motherhood, inherited trauma, grief, control and the complicated relationships that shape who we become.
Pray the Gay Away used humor, satire and fearless honesty to confront conversion therapy, homophobia and the hypocrisy of trying to “fix” queerness. Unapologetic and intentionally uncomfortable, the exhibition celebrated queer voices, allyship and art’s power to rattle cages.