Alison Neville
We Know Better

February 18th - March 12th, 2023

Monte Vista Projects is pleased to announce We Know Better, a solo exhibition of work by Alison Neville.

We Know Better consists of a series of miniature dioramas visualizing some select scenes from our long relationship with our fellow and sometimes not-so-fellow fauna. Each one represents a situation based on real events researched through online media sources. One piece will represent our conservation instinct by showing the effort to protect Sudan, the rhinoceros, from poachers. In contrast, another will portray an example of antagonism between humans and animals with the Tsavo Man-Eater lions that consumed at least 28 men working on the Kenya-Uganda Railway. Each diorama is built within a potted fish can and displayed under a glass bell jar. A zine, short for “magazine,” describing the events will accompany the exhibition.

Alison Neville graduated magna cum laude in 2016 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from Weber State University. She lives and works in Bountiful, Utah as the Education Director at the Bountiful Davis Art Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Her work has been shown nationally as part of pop-up shows, galleries, fundraisers, and city-funded projects. She has work in both Utah’s state-owned Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection, and the Salt Lake County Fine Art Collection. Nasty Women Utah was organized by her as an all-female identifying show, protesting our previous president, and raising funds for Planned Parenthood Utah. She was an artist in residence at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as a participant in the Ayatana Artist Residency in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada, and the Mycophilia Artist Research Residency, a virtual program but based in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada.