"When I consider buying a work of art, I ask myself: Do I want to live with this work? Will I still enjoy looking at it in the years to come? Will the piece continue to engage me? Some of this is guesswork, but that's what makes the process fun. I trust my eye and my gut. I also question how the piece fits into the art world at large — whether its part of an interesting visual or conceptual dialogue. My intellectual side finds that to be important."
— Allison G. Marvin
Sightline
Artwork takes center stage in Allison's white-walled, minimalist apartment. Her collection includes west coast painters Jaq Chartier and Patrick Wilson, east coast figure heads James Siena and Andy Warhol, and international photographers Ole Kolehmainen and Vesna Pavlovic. A common theme is the abstraction of architectural spaces and objects. For example, a photograph by Pavlovic reduces a tiled hotel spa room to an intricate black and white pattern. A painting by Wilson depicts the LA skyline as a two-level, geometric arrangement of squares and rectangles.
