Tamarind trained Master Printer, Fulbright Scholar and head of the School of Visual Arts at Boston University. Allen will present an exhibition to showcase prints and printed objects that draw upon the technical complexity and proficiency of her printmaking practice utilising numerous media including lithography, intaglio, screenprinting and chine collé.
Allen’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, and is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art Library, the New York Public Library, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the Springfield Art Museum, Missouri, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the Vesteros Kunst Museum, Sweden and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as well as numerous corporate collections.
Allen is currently Director of the School of Visual Arts at Boston University and a Professor of Art. Previously she was a Professor of Art at Rutgers University from 1989-2006 and Director of the Rutgers Centre for Innovative Print and Paper from 2000-2006. Before coming to Rutgers she was Master Printer and Educational Director at Tamarind Institute.
