Allison’s visual art career started with street art stickers, most notably of her own cats, Lola and Darla, which she spread all over Somerville. Her switch to digital art clicked when she applied glitch software to photographs of her stickers in the wild. “Multi-Lola” represents both formative phases of the art practice Allison cultivated in Somerville—colorful cats and all!
Artist: Allison Tanenhaus (she/her) is a New York–born, Somerville–based glitch and video artist. She specializes in trippy op art, anachronistic tech mashups, unexpected dimensional qualities...and cats!
Allison’s work has been showcased in 26 countries via exhibitions, installations, festivals, dance parties, music videos, live performances, and guerrilla street art. She is a grantee of Somerville’s Visual Art Fellowship and the City of Boston’s Transformative Public Art Program, and is a member of electronic music group The Square Root of Negative Two and optical installation duo bent/haus.
