{"id":1086,"date":"2019-07-21T21:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2019-07-21T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T21:40:35","slug":"finding-art-in-everyday-life-with-allison-morris-lesch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/2019\/07\/21\/finding-art-in-everyday-life-with-allison-morris-lesch\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Art in Everyday Life with Allison Morris Lesch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Allison Morris Lesch is a visual artist whose work combines traditional, hand-drawn media with a focus on color, pattern, and design. They publish screen prints, digital prints, and zines.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STL SPEX (Joceline): What are your artistic influences?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite majoring in art history, I find my greatest influences outside of museums and galleries. The art that accompanies everyday living is far more intriguing to me &#8211; packaging labels, illustrated books, old posters, postage stamps, etcetera. I value anything with accessible aesthetics and well-thought design. Alongside, daily life itself is a key source of inspiration; the things that I experience (whether food, music, or nature) often appear in my artwork.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"933\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/color4-933x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/color4-933x1024.png 933w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/color4-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/color4-768x843.png 768w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/color4-380x417.png 380w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/color4-800x878.png 800w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/color4.png 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STL SPEX: What does the process look like when creating pieces that all follow a theme like in \u201cColor Studies?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A collection of pieces often begins with a single piece that I am interested in exploring further. For example, my series of color studies began as an experiment to loosen up my studio routine. I started playing around with gouache and color pencils, which turned into a free-form exploration of color and texture. I still return to creating color studies whenever I feel stuck in an artistic rut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jazz5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jazz5.png 750w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jazz5-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jazz5-380x501.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STL SPEX: Your \u201cabout\u201d section on your website describes you as an \u201call-around maker;\u201d what other projects are you working on right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my main side projects for the past year has been moving into and setting up an at-home studio space. I am passionate about interior design in general, so it has been an exciting challenge. At this point, I have the main workspace established, but I am still tweaking to make it more efficient and enjoyable. I try to DIY as much as possible, so it&#8217;s an ongoing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cosmos.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cosmos.png 750w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cosmos-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cosmos-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cosmos-380x375.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allison Morris Lesch is a visual artist whose work combines traditional, hand-drawn media with a focus on color,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}