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Alison Kudlow

@alisonkudlow

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Artist, mostly making sculptures, mostly out of clay and glass.
I also make @_tender_objects_

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Shortly after we’d each given birth, Rose Nestler and I met at my studio to talk about the sculptures in my solo show at Deanna Evans Projects. Today that conversation was published by Bomb Magazine. I’ve long admired Rose’s smart, funny, materially inventive work. Discussing my work with her, particularly in relationship to our postpartum bodies, was a moving and gratifying experience that I’m thrilled to be able to share with the broader art community. My deepest thank you to @rose.nestler , @bombmag , and @deannaevansprojects ! ❤️

My show, Defensive Strategies for Tender Objects, is on view at Deanna Evans Projects through June 22. The gallery, in Tribeca, is open Wednesdays-Saturdays, 12-6pm.

Link in bio. taken in Deanna Evans Projects by @alisonkudlow

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Thank you @jerrysaltz for writing about Under the Skin @asyageisberggallery in @nymag! I’m so thrilled to be in this show alongside @alesbiangaze @eva_tellier_ @sue_debeer @carlyries and #katherinehubbard.
You have until August 14 to heed Jerry’s advice! by @alisonkudlow

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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here, but my studio is full of new work that I’m ready to get eyes on.

This is one of a group of pieces I began by casting iron legs @riversofsteel last May.
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Catch
ceramic, glass, cast iron
42 x 12 x 22 inch
2025
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Photos by @kitsch_witch taken in Brooklyn, New York by @alisonkudlow

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7 months ago

We’re thrilled to spotlight artist @alisonkudlow

Alison Kudlow (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from the University of Southern California, a post-baccalaureate degree from Brandeis University, and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her work has been shown at Asya Geisberg, Swivel, Parent Company, Field Projects, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, UrbanGlass, Underdonk, Fullerton College in California, and Hunter College in New York. She presented a solo exhibition at Elijah Wheat Showroom in Brooklyn in 2019.

In January 2023, Kudlow was an invited resident at the Art Ichol Center in Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Her solo exhibition, Defensive Strategies for Tender Objects, was presented at Deanna Evans Projects in spring 2024.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, BOMB Magazine, and Art Spiel. by @alisonkudlow

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So pleased to share these installation shots of Under the Skin, opening tonight @asyageisberggallery!

“Under the Skin”
July 9 - August 14, 2026

Sue de Beer, Clarity Haynes, Katherine Hubbard, Alison Kudlow, Carly Ries, Eva Tellier

In Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “Is Gender Necessary?,” she states: “One of the essential functions of science fiction, I think, is precisely this kind of question-asking: reversals of a habitual way of thinking, metaphors for what our language has no words for as yet, experiments in imagination.” The works in the exhibition “Under the Skin” energize Le Guin’s words and break away from presumptions of how a woman’s body “should” perform and be categorized. They are in dialogue with the aesthetics associated with body horror in film, addressing the antagonistic nature of the monstrous feminine.

In body horror, emotions fluctuate between disgust, grief, insecurity, fascination, and repulsion when the viscerality of the body is foregrounded in the messy nature of women’s biology. Notable examples include: Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981), David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), and more recently Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013) and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024). These films, as well as many others, rely on our perception of femininity as reaffirming the vulnerability of the exposed female body. We see transgressions of bodily boundaries by devouring, penetrating, spilling contents, and destruction—transforming the female body into a grotesque spectacle.

“Under the Skin” is a celebration of the flesh: mutations, hybrids, and manipulated beings as expressions of how the body can be re-written as a mode of feminist empowerment. The show looks at how abjection is articulated and can be redefined, examining child-birth, care-taking, and body reconfiguration. The works seek to dissolve binary differences and disrupt the social order around female signifiers. The show flips our final understanding of the monstrous feminine into a source of power rather than punishment.

Thank you @asyageisberggallery and @nswinston for your bold and brilliant curation!

Photos by @etienne_fro (cropping mine) by @alisonkudlow

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A delicate leaking fruit teeters on sinewy insect legs. Admittedly, like most of my work, this piece could be read as a self portrait. During times of frayed nerves, heightened senses, and sleepless nights, I’ve felt my innate bodily functions and animal instincts take the lead as I struggle to produce what’s needed to sustain myself and my children.

I sculpted the legs in wax and cast them in iron from resin-bonded sand molds. Working with these materials at this scale was made possible by the people @riversofsteel, particularly @edparrishjr and @paigehenry6010.

Thank you @nswinston for bringing these works to Asya. Thank you @asyageisberggallery for giving this work a place to be seen. Photos of the finished work (though some are ruthlessly cropped here) were made by @kitsch_witch.

Distillery
ceramic, glass, cast iron 60 x 54 x 54 inch
2026 taken in Asya Geisberg Gallery by @alisonkudlow

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Ēostre (Risen) will be getting her days in the sun in a show opening at @transmitternyc this Friday night. This piece is my first to feature elements I cast in aluminum last month at @riversofsteel.

Transmitter presents:
Do I know you from somewhere?
ALISON KUDLOW • SUSAN MEYER • HANNA WASHBURN • SE YOUNG YIM
JULY 18 – AUGUST 16, 2026 OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JULY 17, 6-8 pm

Our deeply human, compulsive nature to scan the world for ourselves is a feature, not a bug. That damp stain on your ceiling that registers as a face? That vase on your shelf that, in the right light, remakes itself as a small figure? Psychologists call this pareidolia: the tendency to impose meaningful forms and patterns onto ambiguous or arbitrary objects and surfaces. Essentially, it’s to find meaning and presence where none was intended. We do this constantly and involuntarily, and it can offer moments of discovery, fear, and joy, but often it’s a flicker we ignore or quickly move past. When that awareness causes pause, and we linger on it with attention or conviction, we call it anthropomorphism.
This sculpture exhibition is preoccupied with our inclination to find ourselves – our bodies, and their residue – in materials and forms that are distinctly inanimate. The works included here remind us of the unsettling frequency with which organic forms echo human presence: posture, tension, weight, intention.

Thank you @genmacleay for including my work!

Ēostre (Risen)
2026
Ceramic, glass, cast aluminum, chain
28 x 28 x 28 inches, hung 1 foot from the floor taken in Transmitter by @alisonkudlow

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Thank you Emma Grimes @autremagazine for your incisive review of Under the Skin @asyageisberggallery!

From her review: “Staged across the gallery floor are five sculptures from Eva Tellier and Alison Kudlow. Three cast-iron legs uphold a glass, off-white flower in Kudlow’s Catch (2026). Two petals stand upright while the third lies flat, inviting a peek inside. A small glass object rests solemnly surrounded by beads and shards of glass. Kudlow’s work always feels fragile yet sharp, as though the sculptures, if you stepped too close, would slice your hand. They feel self-made, like they constructed themselves. And while sometimes a piece of art is stagnant until activated by your gaze, these give the distinct opposite impression; they’re indifferent to it.” by @alisonkudlow

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FINAL 2 days to see "Under the Skin." Don't miss it while it's up at AGG through Friday Aug 14!

Artists: Sue de Beer, Clarity Haynes, Katherine Hubbard, Alison Kudlow, Carly Ries, Eva Tellier

Installation views by @etienne_fro taken in Asya Geisberg Gallery by @alisonkudlow

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Thank you @noa__charuvi at @artspiel for your thoughtful review of Do I Know You from Somewhere @transmitternyc!
The show, curated by @genmacleay, features my work alongside sculptures by @suzetmeyer, @hanna.washburn, and @sey__yim.

The exhibition is open until August 16, weekends 1-6pm. by @alisonkudlow

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Alison Kudlow’s work is on view through August 29 in, “Catching Fire: resilient alchemies in a burning world”.

@alisonkudlow

Alison will introduce her work on August 16, 2:00-3:30PM, as part of a gallery walkthrough with curator Alison McNulty @mcnulty_alison and three other exhibiting artists.

Alison K. writes:

"I capture material in mid-motion, resulting in works that are best described with verbs rather than nouns. Conceptualizing the kiln as a condensed model of geological formation, I create a set of pressures with heat and gravity to which my materials react. With glass oozing, bulging and frothing from ceramic forms, each sculpture feels precarious, like a moment that cannot possibly last.

Often experimenting to develop new processes, I transform ephemeral circumstances into tangible objects. I embody unseen forces in material to slow time and expand a moment. My work is a response to grief, both personal and environmental.

Viewers may find moments of readability—a petal, a fin, a mouth—and a fleshiness that tells us these might be bodies, but fundamentally they refuse language and categorization. Their slipperiness connotes infinite fluid possibilities and any empathy toward them provides a moment of connection with the unknown and unknowable.”

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Installation (from top to bottom) of:
The sun, the center, the beginning, and the end
Ceramic and glass
15 x 11.5 x 3.5”
2018

Pods (Celestial Dust)
Ceramic and glass
13 x 9 x 9”
8 x 6 x 6”
20 x 12 x 11”
2019

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Crucible Fictions
Ceramic and bronze
Dimensions variable
2022

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Spinal Aloe Flame
Ceramic, wrought iron, wax candle, fire
51 x 12 x 12”
2022

Flaming Bud
Ceramic, wrought iron, found hookah parts, candle, flame
50 x 28 x 18”
2023

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Flaming Bud (detail)

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Spinal Aloe Flame (detail)

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The sun, the center, the beginning, and the end

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Pods (Celestial Dust)

Image #5 courtesy of the artist.

Read more about the exhibition by going to our Linktree in our bio and selecting the first option. Check out up-coming public programming at the EVENTS tab.

Ann Street Gallery is a program of @safeharborsofthehudson

Free and open to the public Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm and by apt. taken in Ann Street Gallery by @alisonkudlow

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Luscious detail of Alison Kudlow's Ēostre, 2026, Ceramic, glass, cast iron, 40h x 38w x 38d in.

On view in "Under the Skin," through August 14!

Artists: Sue de Beer, Katherine Hubbard, Clarity Haynes, Alison Kudlow, Carly Ries, Eva Tellier taken in Asya Geisberg Gallery by @alisonkudlow

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