# Alyson Shotz

alyson shotz (born 1964) is a contemporary American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Born at Luke Air Force Base, Glendale, Arizona, she graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and an MFA from the University of Washington in 1991. == Career == alyson shotz investigates concepts of space, light, perception and gravity with sculptures made from a range of materials such as mirror, glass beads, plastic lenses, thread and steel wire.Shotz was included in the exhibition Art & Space at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and has been included in exhibitions such as The More Things Change, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemplating the Void and The Shapes of Space, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Center, and Living Color, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, and Pattern: Follow the Rules at the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.Shotz has had solo exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, and Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, among others.