ABOUT ME
ARTIST STATEMENT:
As a kid one of my favorite hobbies was collecting things. I would come home with pockets full of rocks and handfuls of flowers, along with other things that most people would consider trash, adding them to my prized collections. To this day not much has changed, I still actively collect weird things, which I like to refer to as “creative hoarding”. My fondness of collections inspired me to create my very own accumulation of oddities.
My work is an assemblage of interrelated pieces portraying otherworldly creations using symbolism and dualism. My imagery depicts the coalescence of obsolete and existing objects to form something of new meaning. My process is based upon collaging magazines, found materials, and patterned prints to mix and match imagery. Using that imagery, I render it into a drawing to be made into a print, where I then add elements of collage and monoprint to truly make it one-of-a-kind.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Alyssa Buchino GRADUATED TYLER SCHOOL OF ART, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY WITH HER BFA IN PRINTMAKING AND ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES IN SPRING 2019. SHE CURRENTLY WORKS AS A GARMENT PRINTER FOR DIY MEDIA GROUPS’ BRAND MERCHLY IN PENNSAUKEN NEW JERSEY. In 2017, Buchino’s work was exhibited in the Tiny Biennale Exhibition at the Temple Rome Gallery in Rome, Italy. She is currently located in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
CURRICULUM VITAE:
Tyler School of Art, Temple University-BFA in printmaking and creative entrepreneurial studies- 2015-2019
Pine Richland High School-High School Diploma- 2011-2015
EXHIBITIONS:
2019- ”rust never sleeps”-Kitchen Table Gallery, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
2019- ”x-change - advanced printmaking work from tyler, mica & uarts”-Second State Press at Crane Arts, Philadelphia pennsylvania
2017- ”tiny biennale exhibition”-temple rome gallery, rome italy.
PRINT PORTFOLIO EXCHANGES:
2019- "Senior Projects Mini-Print Portfolio," Tyler Printmaking, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
2019- "X-Change," Tyler, MICA & UArts Advanced Undergraduate Printmaking Portfolio,Philadelphia Pennsylvania
COLLECTIONS:
2019- University of the Arts, Printmaking Department, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
2019- Maryland Institute College of Art, Printmaking Department, Baltimore Maryland
2019- Tyler School of Art, Printmaking Department, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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