In Profile: Allie Jonscher

The act of looking and finding forms the starting point for this body of work by Allie Jonscher. Drawing from the hyper-saturated, information overload of navigating the online world, the works use layers of imagery, information and media encountered through digital space as raw material for saturated compositions. Windows become sites of discovery, transformation and imaginings.

The works begin with Photoshop’s AI image-generation tools. Rather than directing the software through meaningful prompts, Jonscher enters streams of gibberish by smashing the keyboard. These physical, human gestures disrupt the algorithm’s logic, allowing chance to define what images emerge. Each artwork title references the prompt from which it began.

The resulting images become raw material for an intuitive process of selection, manipulation and re-composition. Fragments of glitches, textures, images and forms are layered, blended and reconfigured into abstract compositions. Jonscher in this sense, ‘paints’ with digital software, using it as both collaborator and extension of her brush and palette.

These compositions are translated into physical works combining printed imagery, clear acrylic and painting. Working directly onto the reverse of the printed surfaces, Jonscher layers painted gestures between image and surface. The resulting objects hover between painting, screen and window.

For this installation, the works are positioned over fragments of Jonscher’s own imagery, creating visual interruptions, repetitions and windows within windows. The installation echoes the density and stimulation of online spaces, where multiple layers of content compete for attention and meaning is constantly shifting.

Within this saturated visual landscape, painting becomes a form of human intervention and world-building. Through colour, gesture and abstraction, Jonscher brings the physicality of the hand into a digitally mediated process, creating spaces that sit between the real and imagined.