Biography

My work combines untamed energy of the open sea and disturbing familiarity of alien entities.

BLUE CHIP ARTIST ALLOIS

ALLOIS /Romantic Noir

Allois is an American painter and illustrator, best known for the striking and bizarre images of Aliens in her surrealist work. She illustrated collectible edition of the stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II,” published by Gauntlet Press in 2010. First Edition SOLD OUT!

“Allois’ list of collectors include Hollywood luminaries such as Joss Whedon, Clare Grant and Seth Green, Joanna Cassidy, Dorsay Alavi and Matthew Flint” Hollywood Weekly, March 2018

Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Skylands Art Museum, Lafayette, New Jersey.

Allois is a grantee of Pollock Krasner Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Allois received Gil Borgos award from the City of Beverly Hills.

Allois work “Andy & Blue Rose, collaboration with Karen Bystedt was presented by Six Summit Gallery as window display at Saks Fifth Avenue in Brickell and Dadeland Mall during Art Basel 2019.

In 2019 Allois received an award in category Painting- Professional from London International Creative Competition.

In 2018 Allois received Gil Borgos award from the City of Beverly Hills.

POST INDUSTRIAL RENAISSANCE

“Allois’ work embodies journey & juxtaposition of the real and surreal, the beautiful and the distorted, with an extraordinary depth that compels the viewers to bath and indulge in opposites. The color and form are reminiscent of the classic European style, channeling Leonor Fini, with a rare combination of immediate relevance.” Leo Feroleto, proprietor of Six Summit Gallery.

“Allois has the ability to tap into the psyche, and channel a dreamlike energy, accessing the same centers that bear fantasy surrealism but with a playfulness that doesn’t neglect the humor and playful elements of our psychology. Her recent work blends renaissance style with contemporary painting techniques. It has been exciting to see this style develop over our years exhibiting her work and to see the explosion of new interest and collectors that have aligned with her vision. Allois’ works are regularly commissioned by private, discerning collectors from Hollywood to Silicon Valley. Her pieces add to the modern surrealistic narrative. They excite. They intrigue. They engage the viewer in a myriad of ways, with each subject telling its own story in unique, sometimes provocative, always engaging ways. Allois’ list of collectors includes Hollywood luminaries such as Joss Whedon, Clare Grant and Seth Green, Joanna Cassidy, Dorsay Alavi and Matthew Flint.” Om Navon Bleicher, proprietor of bG Gallery.

“Allois work deals with dislocation and estrangement, at times employing decidedly cute characters in innocently grotesque or strange situations. Allois’ paintings portray characters that visually embody states of mind, from the mischievous to the manic.

The occult and metaphysical themes recurring in the work call to mind the universally recognizable issue of the unknown origins of the soul, and the pre-linguistic mind. Disproportionate, malformed creatures inhabit barren landscapes, where our attention is refocused on the interrelations between characters. The figures seem alien or fantastical, but at the same time they are highly relate-able. The figures evoke raw emotions in the audience by being vague to the visual senses but obvious to the spirit.”

bG Gallery

“Allois paints presences. Her figures manifest conditions, sliding away from personality and into mood. A particular character may present itself as a child or adult, man or beast, but its identity gives way almost immediately to its nuance. These figures, then, are others and at the same time are us. They don’t simply constitute Allois’ cast of characters; they stand in for any of us. The yogic construct of the soul is as a tiny homunculus seated or curled at the base of the heart. This must be the homunculus with whom, in many variations, Allois populates her canvases”.

Peter Frank, American art critic, curator, and editor based in Los Angeles, where he serves as Associate Editor for Fabrik Magazine. Over his nearly 50-year career New York-born Frank has edited several art magazines, written for many more, and organized exhibitions all over the world.

“I think her phenomenal work is a unique combination of the future and the past,” Jacqueline “Jac” Forbes, curator and owner of Malibu’s Canvas Gallery, said, commenting about the intriguing and inspirational art work of Malibu artist Allois. “It blends the delicate beauty of the past and the uncertainty of what the future will bring and what people will look like. It’s great work to get lost in.”

Malibu Chronicle, “Malibu Artist Allois Paints Visionary Atavistic Intrigue and Mystique“/ Mar 29, 2017, Article by Barbara Burke

ABOUT ALLOIS	Allois was born in Lutherstad Wittenberg, Germany 1969. Raised in Wittenberg, Germany, Legnica, Poland and Korsun, Ukraine 1969-1989 She studied at the State Academy of Art in St.Petersburg, Russia and National Academy of Art in Kiev, Ukraine, 1993. In America, Allois studied at Portrait classes as a student of Inger Hodgson. Also Allois was a student of Lev Moross at Art Territory and Lev Moross Studio. Lives and works in Malibu, USA.


Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions	2024 PlayFul Show, April 27 – June 15, Mad.Kat Gallery, Palm Springs 2024 Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2024 Intersect Art and Design, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California 2023 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “GenX Forever”, Santa Monica, California 2023 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Southampton, New York 2023 Art Market San Francisco, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California 2023 Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2023 Intersect Art and Design, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California 2023 Art Palm Beach, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Palm Beach Convention Center, West Palm Beach, Florida 2022 Private Party VIP show 2022 LA Fashion Week, VIP show, March 17 – 20 2021 Los Angeles Art Show, S.E.A., LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2021 Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2021 bG Gallery Winter Mystic, March 2021 Six Summit Gallery, NYC and Westbrook, Connecticut 2020 Six Summit Gallery NYC “Flying to the Sky” 2021 – March 2021 2020 Six Summit Gallery Grand Salon, Westbrook, CT. Allois iconic paintings FLYING DUTCHMAN and CHRISTOPHER & MARCEL / Exclusively at Six Summit Gallery. 2020 Six Summit Gallery Grand Salon, Westbrook, CT, “The Lost Warhol”. Collaboration “Andy & Blue Rose” / Exclusively at Six Summit Gallery. 2020 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Love in the Time of Corona”, Santa Monica, California 2020 Art Palm Springs, bG Gallery, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California 2020 Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2019 Nude Art LA, Cooper Design Space, Los Angeles, March 29 – 30 2019 LA Fashion Week, VIP show, March 21 – 24 2019 Palm Springs Modernism, Flower & Hewes gallery, Santa Monica, California, February 14 – 18 2019 “Style Art” Woody Michleb Salon, Six Summit Gallery, Palm Beach, January 7 – February 27 2019 24rd Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station – Santa Monica, California, January 23 – 27 2018 “Flying Dutchman” curated by Six Summit Gallery at Copper Beech Inn, May 13 – November 13 2018 “Stranger Than Fiction” by bG Gallery, April 15 – May 15 2018 LA Fashion Week, VIP show, March 12 -16 2018 23rd Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station – Santa Monica, California 2017 Solo Show “Nothing but Dreaming” at bG Gallery, November 18 – December 13 2017 LAAA Annual Benefit Auction2017 CASA Wine + Art/ Auction February 25th 2017 Art Hearts Fashion 2017, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, March 14 – 17 2017 22nd Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California LA ART SHOW, presented by bG Gallery, Los Angeles 2016 21st Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California LA ART SHOW, presented by bG Gallery, Los Angeles 2016 LAAA Annual Benefit Auction2016 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Multiworlds”, Santa Monica, California 2016 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Grayscale Wonderland II”, Santa Monica, California2016 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Summer Group Exhibition”, Santa Monica, California 2015-16 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Gifted”, Santa Monica, California 2015 20th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2015 – Solo Show ‘No Particular Night or Morning’ Nov. 14 -December 9, bG Gallery, Santa Monica 2015 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “144”, Santa Monica, California2014 Schomburg Gallery, “Poetry in Colors”, MAA Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2014 bG Gallery Bergamot Station, “Spectrum-Gestalt”, Santa Monica, California2014 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman) – Ocean Avenue, “Orgone Accumulators”, Santa Monica California 2014 19th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2013-2014 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman), “From Big Things, Little Things Grow”, Santa Monica, California 2013 Schomburg Gallery at Bergamot Station, “Winter Spirit”, MAA Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2013 18th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, Project Space, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2013 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman), “Objectified II”, Santa Monica, California 2013 Schomburg Gallery at Bergamot Station, “Still Life and Beyond”, MAA Juried Group Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2013 bG Gallery (Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman), “Winter Tides”, Santa Monica, California 2012 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Play Space”, Santa Monica, California 2012 17th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, Project Space, bG Gallery Bergamot Station-Santa Monica, California, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 2012 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Play Space”, Santa Monica, California 2012 – Solo Show, Jean Marc Gallery, Los Angeles 2012 Bleicher Gallery La Brea Anniversary Exhibition, Los Angeles, California 2012 Bleicher Gallery La Brea, “Print x Print”, Los Angeles, California 2012 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Sound Works”, Santa Monica, California 2012 Schomburg Gallery at Bergamot Station, “Enchanted Spaces”, MAA Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2011 Bleicher Gallery La Brea, “Soft Machine UT”, Los Angeles, California 2011 Bleicher/Golightly and Hamilton Galleries, “Animal Magnetism”, Santa Monica, California 2011 Solo Show, Jean Marc Gallery, Los Angeles 2011 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, “Scapes I”, Santa Monica, California 2011 – Solo Show, Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 – Solo Show, Jean Marc Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 – Bleicher/Golightly Galler 2010 – Bleicher Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 – Solo Show, Canvas Gallery, Malibu, CA 2009 – Solo Show, Icosahedron Gallerie, New York 2008 – Solo Show, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica 2008 – Solo Show, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA 2008 – Solo Show, Icosahedron Gallerie, New York 2007 – Solo Show, Montserrat Gallery, New York 2007 – Nancy MargolisGalery, New York 2007 – Solo Show, Icosahedron Gallerie, New York 2007 – Solo Show, Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles 2007 – Solo Show, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica 2006 – Solo Show, Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles 2005 – Solo Show, Lev Moross Gallery, Los Angeles 2005 – “Life in Contrast,” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles 2005 – Solo Show, Montserrat Gallery, New York 2004 – “Unity & Diversity 2,” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles 2003 – “Unity & Diversity 1,” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles


PROJECTS	Fine Art Novel “THE BLACK GONDOLIER” by Fritz Leiber. Fine Art Novel “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II” by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Allois Animation “THE BLACK GONDOLIER” by MTV.

PUBLICATIONS	Fine Art Novel “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II” by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Allois, Gauntlet Press 2010 MIDLIFE DRAMA by Irit Kedem, Publishing House of General Union of Writers in Israel 2008 (Cover Illustration by Allois) PRESS: Not Real Art MagazinePainter “Helen Allois Mines Art History to Create an Alternate Universe” June 14, 2021 INK Magazine, July 2020 “The Lost Warhols an exhibition at Six Summit Gallery, Westbrook” Hollywood Weekly, January 2019 “A Ceremony of Innocence. Golden Globe Winner Joanna Cassidy Receives her Portrait by Allois at Los Angeles Fashion Week” Hollywood Weekly, September 2018 “C & G the Theater of Earth” Hollywood Weekly, January 2019 “A Ceremony of Innocence. Golden Globe Winner Joanna Cassidy Receives her Portrait by Allois at Los Angeles Fashion Week” Hollywood Weekly, June 2018 “Art Exhibited in Open Spaces from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Allois” Hollywood Weekly, Royal Wedding Edition, June 17th, 2018 “Allois Sensational, Sensual, Surrealist Portrait of Miss Quatemalla Delights” Hollywood Weekly, April 8, 2018 “Allois Transdenting Surreal Realm, Hollywood Style” Hollywood Weekly, March 13, 2018 “A Rising Star in Hollywood Scene” Malibu Surfside News, February 8, 2018 “Malibu Artist Brings Fresh Perspective to Local ShowsMalibu Times, November 24, 2017 People sectionMalibu Surfside News, February 1, 2017 “A creative wonderland” Malibu Surfside News, November 23, 2016 “Come a little closer” Malibu Times, July 28, 2016, week’s People section Malibu Times, February 4, 2016, week’s People section Malibu Surfside News, November 23, 2016 “Inspiration abounds at Malibu’s Flower & Hewes” Malibu Times, November 5, 2015, week’s People section 2015 ART News, September 2005 Artist Interviews Magazine 2005 Malibu News February 12 2004, week’s People section Artis Spectrum vol.12 2004