My work explores the subjects of stardom, vanity, vice, and excess within American society. I am inspired by our culture’s obsession with beauty in both film and classic painting that have  created idealized versions of reality. For me, everything still revolves around desire within the masculine and the feminine. My own inspiration comes from navigating the world as an artist with the knowledge of my womanhood. I spent my formative art years traveling Europe and studying in France where I  got my degree. As an American in France I was able to be immersed in the culture while  remaining somewhat  idealistic and naive, which has inspired much of the poetry and romanticism of my paintings. As a stranger in a foreign country I felt watched because I was  different  and  I  think  that  is  where  I  get  the  voyeurism  in  my paintings. My work revolves  around the feminine and the womanly that seem to be enveloping its masculine counterpart. Essentially, I become the women in my paintings and I experience their emotions in a dreamlike  environment where my feelings are acceptable. I am always making a voyage in connection to my characters and I am in a way expressing what is inside of me, what is hidden and what is forbidden and what I would never be able to touch in reality

Allison Moyers is an oil painter and video artist who lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. She did most of her art studies in France and graduated with honors and a DNAP from ESAD de Valenciennes in 2015. Her work explores western culture’s obsession with beauty in film, literature and classic painting that have created idealized versions of reality.