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Allison Belliveau-Proulx


Born in Staten Island, NY, Allison attended Rhode Island School of Design and ultimately received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in 1989. After college she worked as a freelance illustrator for a few years and then landed a job as a background artist at Hanna Barbera. She worked on many shows including Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Johnny Quest, Yo Yogi to name just a few.

Formerly a Walt Disney Feature Animation and Hanna Barbera background artist in Burbank, CA, Allison Belliveau-Proulx has turned her talent to the canvas full time for the last 10 years and currently resides near Dallas, TX. She recently completed her MFA at Texas Woman's University majoring in painting and minoring in sculpture. Allison completed her undergraduate work at Rhode Island School of Design and Art Center College of Design.
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Artist Statement
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I  believe  there  is  a  universal  impact  of  the  media  throughout  the  world,  effecting  people  both  positively  and  negatively.  My  work  reflects  my reactions  and  perceptions  to  the  complexities  of  media’s  impact  on  society.  The  manner  with  which  information  is  presented  is  so  fleeting  that  our  responses  have  become fleeting  as  well.  This  blur  has  a  numbing  effect  on  our  perception.


In this series, “Choosing Heroes,” I am reflecting on how society and the media influence our choice of heroes, and how necessary, although not always acceptable, it is for our heroes to be flawed. Fictional heroes need to be flawed to make them more believable and to gain our empathy. Most find it harder however, when meeting our real life heroes, to discover they are less than the perfect image we had painted them to be in our minds.  Our criteria for real life heroes seems almost unattainable, and we are less forgiving and empathetic when discovering what we consider to be their flaws.  Often real life heroes are overlooked because they are not able to attain the image of what the media and society has depicted a hero to be.

I use collage, with patterns containing established iconography that reflect the society depicted, and printed imagery from media and pop culture to serve as a societal subconscious. The representational, traditional approach to painting is used selectively to reveal and obscure the collage beneath, reflecting cultural identity and the present reality of urban living.  

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2015 Education Management Corp-Online classes for Art Institute 

2015 SMU Continuing And Professional Education - Dallas, TX 
2015 Texas Woman’s University - Denton, TX 2010 Texas Teachers Alternative Teaching Certification

2007 Studio Arts 
  • Digital Art Classes
Art Center at Night
  • Digital Art Classes

1989 Art Center College of Design
  • BFA illustration with distinction

1983-1986 Rhode Island School of Design

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2015 - Present Art Institute of Dallas - Adjunct Instructor Dallas, TX
  • Classes: Gesture/Life Drawing
  • Observational Drawing
  • Anatomy

2012 Texas Woman’s University - Graduate Teaching Assistant

2013 Denton, TX
  • Class: Intro To Painting In Oils :3 Semesters

2010 Mansfield Art Classes - Director and founder

2011 Mansfield, TX
  • Class: Intro To Painting In Oils: One Year
  • Intro To Drawing/Figure Drawing: One Year

1995 Motion Picture Screen Cartoonist Union North Hollywood, CA
  • Class: Background Painting Techniques In Acrylics: 12 Weeks

1992 Hanna Barbara
  • Manila, Philippines
  • Supervisor: Background Painting Department: Two Months

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003 - present A Proulx Fine Art

1992 - 1998 Walt Disney Feature Animation - background artist
  • Films Include: Aladdin, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fantasia Continued.

1990 - 1992 Hanna Barbera - background artist
  • Shows Include: Yo Yogi, Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, Fish Police, Monster In My Pocket, Johnny Quest, Flintstones Commercial,
Jetsons Commercial, Adams Family

1989 - 1992 Commercial Freelance Illustration

HONORS

2013 Visual Art Society of Texas Member’s Exhibition, Denton, TX.
  • Best of Show
Visual Art Society of Texas, Denton, TX.
  • Purchase Award, Barbara Evan’s Attorney at Law Award
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX.
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society

2012 Visual Art Society of Texas Member’s Exhibition, Denton, TX.
  • Best of Show
Goddard Center for the Arts, Ardmore, OK.
  • Second Place

2011 Texas Woman’s University Alliance Show, Denton, TX.
  • Second Place


2010 World Art Foundation, Fullerton, CA.
  • World Art Expo
  • First Place - Emerging Artist Competition

EXHIBITIONS

2016 Merging Visions - Meadows Gallery at the Appleton Art Center, Denton, TX
  • Unjuried
Ft. Worth Art Collective - Ft. Worth Community Art Center, Ft. Worth, TX.
  • Unjuried

2015 Urban Confliction - Plano Art Association, Plano, TX.
  • Invitational Exhibition
Ft. Worth Art Collective - Botanical Research Institute of Texas Ft. Worth, TX
  • Unjuried
I Am, You Are - Art 7 Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX.
  • Jurors: Elaine Taylor, Ariel Davis
Master of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition - Texas
  • Woman’s University, Denton, TX.
  • Committee: Gary Washmon, Tanya Synar, Vance Wingate
Unique By Nature - McKinney Performing Art Center, McKinney, TX.
  • Juror: Mary Vernon
Americana - Art 7 Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX.
  • Juror: Elaine Taylor, Ariel Davis
500x Student Expo -500X - Dallas, TX.
  • Jurors: Susan Roth Romans, Jordan Roth

2014 Lucky Seven Exhibition - Texas Woman’s University East Gallery, Denton, TX.
  • Jurors: TWU faculty
Voertman’s Juried Competition - Texas Woman’s University East and West Gallery - Denton, TX.
  • Juror: Leigh Arnold
Merging Visions - Visual Art Society of Texas, Denton, TX.
Rising Eyes of Texas - Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX.
  • Juror: Chris Davila
University of Dallas - TWU Juried Student Exhibition, Dallas, TX.
  • Juror: Rachel Hiser
500X - TWU Graduate Student Exhibition, Dallas, TX.
  • Jurors: TWU Faculty
First Street Gallery’s Pop - Up Show - New York, NY.

2013 Craighead Green’s New Texas Talent - Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • Jurors: Kenneth Craighead, Steve Green, Scott Presley.
Visual Art Society of Texas National Exhibition - Meadows Gallery
  • Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX.
Visual Art Society of Texas Member’s Exhibition - Texas Woman’s University East and West Gallery - Denton, TX.
  • Juror: Michelle Hayes
Visual Art Society of Texas Calendar Competition - Denton, TX.
  • Juror: Gary Washmon
Voertman’s Juried Competition - Texas Woman’s University East And West Gallery - Denton, TX.
Rising Eyes of Texas - Rockport Center for the Arts - Rockport, TX.
  • Juror: Dennis Nance

2012 Texas Woman’s University Alliance Show - Texas Woman’s University East and West Gallery - Denton, TX.
  • Juror: Leslie Murrell - assistant curator of education at the Modern in Ft. worth, tx 
Kspace Contemporary Third Coast National Show - Corpus Christi, tx
  • Juror: Christina Rees
Visual Arts Society of Texas 2013 Calendar - Denton, TX.
  • Juror: Ana Lopez
First Street Gallery 2012 MFA National Competition - New York, ny.
  • Juror: John Yau
Visual Arts Society of Texas 23rd Annual Juried Members Exhibition - 
  • UNT Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX.
  • Juror: Elaine Taylor
The Goddard Center Annual Juried Exhibition - Ardmore, OK.
  • Juror:Joy Reed
Voertman’s Juried Competition - Texas Woman’s University East and West Gallery - Denton, TX.

2011 Texas Woman’s University Alliance Show - Texas Woman’s university East and West Gallery - Denton, TX


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INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2015 Urban Confliction - Plano Art Association - Plano, TX.
Curator: Soheyla Rashidyan

fort worth art collective at the brit - Ft. Worth, TX.
fort worth art collective at bluebonnet circle - Ft. Worth, TX.
Maryanne Meltzer/Allison Proulx - North Lake College Gallery - Irving, TX.
  • Curator: Steven Benezue
2014 Privileged ignorance, strangers - Fort Worth Community Art Center - Fort Worth, TX
  • Curators: Eric Miller, Lin Wang.
2013 Uptown Vision - Solo Exhibition, Dallas, TX.


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REPRESENTATION
2010 Rive Gauche Gallery - Scottsdale, AZ. 2009-2010
2009 Gallery At the End of the World - Pasadena, CA
2008 United Picture and Frame and Gallery - Pasadena, CA


PUBLICATIONS
2015 Walt Disney’s Pocahontas: The Legacy Collection. Background Paintings
2014 Merging Visions. Visual Art Society of Texas
2013 Merging visions. Visual Art Society of Texas
1997 The Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Walt Disney Feature Animation
1995 The Art of Pocahontas. Walt Disney Feature Animation
1995 Sotheby’s. Pocahontas Catalogue Cover

MEMBERSHIPS
Fort Worth Community Art Center
Visual Art Society of Texas
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Kimbell Art Museum
Dallas Museum of Art
Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth
Bath House Cultural Center
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