MEMBER SHOW PROFILE // Fanny Allie's Installations Have Us All Aglow

"Glowing Homeless"

As we approach our Fall edition of 3rd Ward's Member Group Show--happening Friday, Nov. 18th--we're taking the opportunity to introduce you to a few mightily talented folks who's work you'll see. Today, we give you mixed media wunderkind Fanny Allie:

While it was Fanny Allie's piece "Glowing Homeless" (created for Greenpoint's Bring to Light art festival) that caught our eye, that piece strays from Allie's usual fare. "I actually had to have someone make that for me," she explains. "I usually like to work with more natural materials, clay, I make my own papier mache." Still she was excited to be a part of the event inspired by Nuit Blanche, an art festival from her native France.

Allie's studied at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie at Arles before making the move to New York in 2006, when she participated in the Bronx Museum of the Arts' Artist in the Marketplace program. "I moved here to do that," she says, "and then I just kind of stayed..." 

A common thread beneanth Allie's work--one that's earned her spots exhibiting in the Chashama Window Space Program and at Urban Alchemist--is an ease with the human body. Heads, fingers and silhouettes all recurring visual themes. We're thrilled to add Allie's organic, slightly whimsical aesthetic to the Member Show, so hit the jump to get a glimpse of what's in store.

"Chair Body""Eye Level" 

-- Layla Schlack