Allison Torneros

http://www.allisontorneros.com

"Allison Torneros is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles. Born on Christmas Eve in the San Francisco Bay area, and raised in Fremont, CA, she has been drawing ever since she can remember. Creativity has always played a major role in her life, and as a crafty kid she put together her own home-made comic books, built websites, altered clothing, and made her own jewelery. She eventually saw her craftiness as a money-making opportunity, and in her sophomore year of high school, began freelancing her web design skills. This led her to later found Circle.Dot Creative (formerly AT Creative), a design studio focusing on green graphic and web design.

By the age of 18, Allison was invited to participate in her first gallery group show in San Francisco months before entering her first year of college at UCLA where she is currently a senior. Her style is influenced by fashion illustration, the art of lucid dreaming, graphic design, comics/anime, and street art. In Allison's current body of work, her use of bold texture and rhythm aim to create a psychedelic experience inspired by dreamscapes and the capacity of human consciousness. She approaches the creation process by letting the paint do the 'talking'--by throwing around paint and other materials onto the canvas in an unpredictable manner and leaving it to dry overnight, Allison later comes up with a concept and begins drawing based on what she sees in the random composition. PAPERBOOGIE is her alter-ego, a name (now retired) inspired by her background in dance, and is also the alias she assumes whenever she paints live at events."