Sophia Allison is a Los Angeles-based, multi-media artist who offers an autobiography of sewn landscapes and works on paper. She will be hosting a lecture on Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. at the Campus Center Conference Room. The lecture is free-of-charge and open to public.

The work is directly connected to and inspired by the organic surroundings of her childhood home in the mountains of Western North Carolina and her current home in Los Angeles.

“Far” alludes to not only the physical distance of familiar locations but also the emotional aspects of memories attached to specific places.

Her recent works on paper are collaged abstracted landscapes. Allison paints acrylic on both sides of a piece of watercolor paper and allows it dry directly on her studio floor. The paper is then cut down into pieces for the collage works. The forms within these works undulate and flow, creating movement in the images that loosely resemble various mountain topography.

Allison’s goal is to cause viewers to pause and notice the mundane in the environments they pass through, notice the bits of unexpected beauty that sometimes go undetected through their lives.

To see Allison’s “Far” visit the Moorpark College gallery from Nov 21. through Jan 20. For more information on Allison visit the artist’s website: www.sophiaallison.com