{"id":2727,"date":"2012-11-29T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:59","slug":"allison-schulnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/29\/allison-schulnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Allison Schulnik"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Allison Schulnik<\/a> paints a cast of ghoulish characters throughout her body of work, mainly noseless with sunken eye sockets. Her heavily painted canvases employ a range of depth and subtle detail. The paintings of American magic realist,\u00a0Ivan Albright<\/a>, came to mind when I saw Allison’s work. Both playing on the theme of macabre, blending fantastical elements with the real world.<\/p>\n

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Allison Schulnik paints a cast of ghoulish characters throughout her body of work, mainly noseless with sunken eye sockets. Her heavily painted canvases employ a range of depth and subtle detail. The paintings of American magic realist,\u00a0Ivan Albright, came to mind when I saw Allison’s work. Both playing on the theme of macabre, blending fantastical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[444,37,125,447,1868],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-allison-schulnik","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-ivan-albright","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-HZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10394,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/artist-dennis-congdon\/","url_meta":{"origin":2727,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Dennis Congdon","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I love these abstract paintings from Dennis Congdon. 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