Alyson Provax (USA, 1984) Alyson Provax is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. She is interested in loneliness, uncertainty and memory. She uses the tools of printmaking, and her work has been described as “printmaking disinterested in the perfection based traditions that exist as a form of exclusion.” She often uses repetition as a drawing tool rather than to make multiple originals, and calls into question the certainty of a text with its visual presentation. She has shown regionally at Agenda, Archer Gallery, Bridge Productions, Carnation Contemporary, Upfor Gallery, The Vestibule, Wolff Gallery, and the Whatcom Museum, nationally at A.I.R. Gallery and The Untitled Space in New York, and internationally at the Blueproject Foundation in Barcelona. She is also a member of the Portland-based Well Well Projects. Her work appeared in articles about artists’ responses to the 2016 election in New York Magazine, Newsweek and ArtSlant. In 2018 she made letterpress billboard works shown in Seattle for Vignettes and Gramma’s A LONE, which was supported by the Bill and Ruth True Foundation. This interest in public art continued with something nameless in Portland in June 2019, supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council; and with her participation in lone some in the California bay area in 2020 hosted by Montalvo Arts Center. Her work has been published in the Buckman Journal, The Racket, Poetry Northwest and Eleven Eleven, and first solo publication project was published by Volumes in 2019