ABOUT ALLISON EVONNE STREETT

ARTIST STATEMENT

Through the common language of the human face and figure, we instinctively recognize and respond to one another’s physical and emotional conditions. I use this natural affinity in my work, through narrative and allegory, to provoke insights into ourselves and those around us, challenge us to acknowledge our true relationship to each other and invite us to imagine a more just future.

One of the functions of art that most interest me is its ability to make space for conversations. According to Leo Tolstoy, communication through art is “a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.” It is my hope and privilege to participate in this process through the work of my hands.

My religious faith has always influenced my work, and the sculptures in the Encounters series are drawn directly from biblical narratives. In some of my sculptures, beauty is my primary language, but often there is an element of brokenness or distortion, which reflects the grief, pain, and separation we all experience.

At the core of my work is the conviction that to deny that we are broken is dishonest, and art that ignores suffering forsakes its power to facilitate healing.

In all of my work, it is my goal to create evocative, technically excellent sculptures that communicate the truth about human experiences in an honoring, challenging, and hopeful way that creates space for conversations that help us to better understand one another and ourselves.

Allison Streett is a classically trained figurative sculptor. She has received local and national recognition for her figurative sculpture and drawings in solo and group exhibitions, and competitions.

In 2022 she was awarded the Harriet W. Frishmuth Memorial Award for a Bronze Sculpture in the prestigious Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s 125th Annual Open Exhibition in New York City. She was featured in Emerging Stars in American Sculpture hosted by the National Sculpture Society at Brookgreen Gardens, the 8th Catholic Arts Biennial, and the Portrait Society of America’s Tri-State Competition in 2019. Among her awards and honors she was awarded Best in Show at the 2019 Texas Sculpture Association Members Show, the Award for Excellence at Conception Dallas in 2019, a grant from the Sumasil Foundation in 2006, and a grant from the Hillsdale College Christian Visual Arts Educational Fund in 2003. She was one of ten sculptors selected to participate in the 24th Annual National Sculpture Society Figure Modeling Competition, and placed first in sculpture in the 2002 Michigan Small College Art Competition.

Allison lives and creates outside of Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and their six children.