Alli­son Schul­nik is an artist liv­ing and work­ing in Los Ange­les. Orig­i­nally receiv­ing a degree in Exper­i­men­tal Ani­ma­tion from Cal Arts, Alli­son uses her really unique style in dif­fer­ent art forms.

I think the most strik­ing thing about Allison’s work is its sculp­tural forms. She uses paint to build up a sur­face that gives us not only some­thing to look at from a two dimen­sional stand­point, but to also look at it crit­i­cally from a three dimen­sional point of view. The amount of details Alli­son has between the moun­tains and val­leys of her oil paint­ings is stag­ger­ing. You can spend a long time with each work and still dis­cover new things to each piece.

The every­man seems to be a com­mon theme in Allison’s work, but not in the sense we’re all used to. A lot of her draw­ings and paint­ings are of hobos and face­less men — obvi­ously down on their luck and blend with the back­ground or land­scape. You don’t nec­es­sar­ily notice them unless you chose to acknowl­edge them.

All images via her web­site.