Allison Bamcat
CEO Allison Bamcat LLC.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
(781)351-9699
bamcatart.com
Artist Bio 2020
Allison Bamcat is a color-obsessed painter living in Los Angeles. Through her use of texture, expression, and vivid color, she seeks to invoke feelings of nostalgia, magic, intensity, and gravity. The creatures, props and plants in her paintings serve as avatars for her personal journey. Bamcat works in Acryla gouache with a secondary concentration in large-scale murals and a budding love for ceramics.
Allison Bamcat is a color-obsessed painter living in Los Angeles. Through her use of texture, expression, and vivid color, she seeks to invoke feelings of nostalgia, magic, intensity, and gravity. The creatures, props and plants in her paintings serve as avatars for her personal journey. Bamcat works in Acryla gouache with a secondary concentration in large-scale murals and a budding love for ceramics.
Work Experience
Converse Inc.
Footwear Designer
Footwear designer specializing in specific accounts as well as graphics. Worked on Kids footwear from 7/10 - 7/11, Special Make Up footwear from 7/11 - present. In charge of the allotment of graphics that get sent to Converse's retail stores for custom placement and printing.
July 2010
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Dick Blick Art Materials
Associate
Sales Associate at a specialty art supplies store, catering to college students as well as professionals in selecting and understanding paints, pens, brushes, and anything else you can think of. Responsible for merchandising, training new employees as well as assisting store managers. Honored employee of the month in April 2007 and recently promoted to Store Art Director, responsible for hanging, organizing, and keeping track of all hung artwork in the store. Also the mural artist for the store, as well as the menu board decorator and flyer artist for promotional events. Does product demonstrations for promotional events as well.
February 2007
- July 2010
Undercover Fish
Intern/Graphic Design
Responsible for assisting with the layout and production of Undercover Fish comics and books along with working for its sister companies, Modus Lotus and Robo Picto. Expected to have good relations with artists, editors, art directors, and have a creative eye while learning layout, publishing, and design. Worked with UCF to produce a gallery show with artists Andy Fish, Veronica Hebard, and Lindsay Small at the Space 242 gallery in South Boston on June 26th, 2009.
January 2009
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Allison Bamcat
CEO
Freelance artist specializing in custom illustration, design, mural art, and live events.
June 2017
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Los Angeles, California, United States
Education
Exposure
*Space 242 "Revenge of Freeky Fright Nights" Show October 2011
*Boston Collectives Show October 2011
*Paint Pens in Purses Book launch Show July 2011
*Phidias Gold Paper Toy Show June 2011
*Space 242 “Good VS. Evil” Show January 2011
*Space 242 “Circus Freaks” Show April 2010
*Space 242 “I..We..You..Robots!” Show January 2010
*Space 242 “Rock Posters of the 90’s” Show December 2009
*Art Asylum Boston “Art Strikes Back” Show November 2009
*Space 242 “Atomic Hearts” Featured Artist June 2009
*New England Arts For Animals Calendar Art Show May 2009
*Degree Project Final Show April 2009
*Mass. College of Art & Design All School Show March 2009
“*Pop Euphoria” Show December 2008
*Boston Scholastic Art Award Shows 2004 & 2005 *”Siegfried Goes to the Hospital” Children's Book Winter 2010
*”How to Draw Tattoo Style” by Quarto Publishing Summer 2010
*Boston Phoenix Cover Artist July and August 2009
*Boston Pheonix Cover Artist May 2009
*New England Arts For Animals 2010-2011 Calendar
*MassArt Black and White Illustration Book April 2009
*“Detour” Issue 12 Comic Anthology cover artist February 2009
*Weekly Dig cover artist, Week 4 October 2008
*Boston Collectives Show October 2011
*Paint Pens in Purses Book launch Show July 2011
*Phidias Gold Paper Toy Show June 2011
*Space 242 “Good VS. Evil” Show January 2011
*Space 242 “Circus Freaks” Show April 2010
*Space 242 “I..We..You..Robots!” Show January 2010
*Space 242 “Rock Posters of the 90’s” Show December 2009
*Art Asylum Boston “Art Strikes Back” Show November 2009
*Space 242 “Atomic Hearts” Featured Artist June 2009
*New England Arts For Animals Calendar Art Show May 2009
*Degree Project Final Show April 2009
*Mass. College of Art & Design All School Show March 2009
“*Pop Euphoria” Show December 2008
*Boston Scholastic Art Award Shows 2004 & 2005 *”Siegfried Goes to the Hospital” Children's Book Winter 2010
*”How to Draw Tattoo Style” by Quarto Publishing Summer 2010
*Boston Phoenix Cover Artist July and August 2009
*Boston Pheonix Cover Artist May 2009
*New England Arts For Animals 2010-2011 Calendar
*MassArt Black and White Illustration Book April 2009
*“Detour” Issue 12 Comic Anthology cover artist February 2009
*Weekly Dig cover artist, Week 4 October 2008