Biography from a third party submitted on 07/05/2006:
| Alison Cann-Clift, known as Ali, was born in 1949 in Nova Scotia. During her childhood, Ali’s parents lived in Cuba where her father was manager of a large cattle ranch. It was as a child in Cuba that she first saw the circus, which would become an important theme in her later artistic career.
Ali moved to Boston in 1967 to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. At the Museum School, Ali met and later married the artist Jack Clift. Sewing layers of colored cloth, tulle, string and embroidered fabric and painting on touches of pastel, Ali creates works with extra-ordinary spatial illusions and atmospheric effects. Her success and growth as an artist has allowed her to explore a variety of media including etchings, serigraphs, monoprints, aquatints and most recently iris prints. |
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