Allison Track (b. 1977, St. Catharines, Canada)

Allison Track is a visual artist residing in Saskatoon, Canada. She earned her Master of Fine Art from the University of Saskatchewan in 2006, following her Bachelor of Fine Art studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Allison has a diverse practice background encompassing painting, sculpture, installation art, and new media.

In her current work, Allison paints in oil on panel and canvas in traditional techniques, and gold leaf and enamel on panes of glass, in modern-era reverse glass gilding techniques. Her work rummages in the slippery and elusive themes of subjectivity, unreliability, movement, and the mutability of form in response to the observer's gaze. 

These paintings draw inspiration from various pop visual sources, including film stills, painted backgrounds from the early era of animation, and the dynamic fluidity found in cartoon smears and wipes. Complementing the visual elements, textual material culled from film quotes, song lyrics, and meme culture lend her work a jarring and contemporary non-narrative. Titles of the artworks and textual inclusions within the paintings themselves evolve into pieces of found poetry, adding a lexical dimension that challenges interpretation through arcane codifications particular to one individual at one time, namely the artist at the time of conception through completion of a work, and subject to another’s projections, the witness/viewer. 

Allison's work invites viewers to explore the intricate interplay between popular visual and textual elements filtered through the meaning-making machine of the artist’s conception of the world, inviting a nuanced examination of the unreliable nature of perception and meaning.