Alison Foshee relishes the challenge of finding new meaning in objects that have become banal. She calls her process the “craft sciences”, which simply describes a high emphasis on finish and the elevation of low materials and the traditional craft arts. While employing the scientific method of hypothesis and experimentation, she reveals something about the material’s original function that will inform its new shape and content. Foshee was born in San Diego, California. She received a BA in Fine Art from Occidental College and an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. For 15 years following her graduation from SFAI, Foshee lived and worked in Southern California. She has shown extensively in Los Angeles in solo and group exhibitions in both gallery and museum settings. She has also exhibited in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. Her work appears in many publications; the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Artweekly, Art and Text and the New Yorker, to name a few. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon.