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By Allison Reho
Assemblage of fabric, stuffing, buttons, beads, phone cord and other found materials.
44” x 12” x 3”
2025
Artist Statement: Allison Reho, a native to Beaumont, Texas, attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics in her hometown across the street from a big refinery in 2012. Soon after, she relocated to New Orleans to be closer to her beloved sister’s growing family. Without the benefits of studio space and machinery akin to college, Reho’s work changed within the confines of her new city and bludgeoning of service industry jobs. Still sculpting clay by hand on the floors at whichever home, collage took forefront in the in-between moments. Walking carefully with shoeboxes full of little decrepit men to be fired at a local studio, remnants of once other’s lives were found scattered on the ground, picked up, held for enmeshment in new form. Reho sculpts separately in clay and found objects, of or on the earth.
Artist Bio:
I am from the lowlands of Beaumont, Texas,
I don’t know anything about hills
Even though
Beaumont in French translates to
‘Beautiful Mountain’.
The only thing I know about
Hills and mountains
Is the piles of sediment
at the Port of Beaumont
And the spaghetti bowl of I-10
reaching westward into Houston,
And forever under construction
Leaving the Texas boundaries to Louisiana
Where I still
reside
in the low lands
below sea level.
“My work is mostly comprised of found and revered objects. Though it is my highest hopes sometimes for them to sit on a pedestal, I think they feel most at home best back in an environment of which suits them.”
-Allison Reho, Beaumont, Texas.
By Allison Reho
Assemblage of fabric, stuffing, buttons, beads, phone cord and other found materials.
44” x 12” x 3”
2025
Artist Statement: Allison Reho, a native to Beaumont, Texas, attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics in her hometown across the street from a big refinery in 2012. Soon after, she relocated to New Orleans to be closer to her beloved sister’s growing family. Without the benefits of studio space and machinery akin to college, Reho’s work changed within the confines of her new city and bludgeoning of service industry jobs. Still sculpting clay by hand on the floors at whichever home, collage took forefront in the in-between moments. Walking carefully with shoeboxes full of little decrepit men to be fired at a local studio, remnants of once other’s lives were found scattered on the ground, picked up, held for enmeshment in new form. Reho sculpts separately in clay and found objects, of or on the earth.
Artist Bio:
I am from the lowlands of Beaumont, Texas,
I don’t know anything about hills
Even though
Beaumont in French translates to
‘Beautiful Mountain’.
The only thing I know about
Hills and mountains
Is the piles of sediment
at the Port of Beaumont
And the spaghetti bowl of I-10
reaching westward into Houston,
And forever under construction
Leaving the Texas boundaries to Louisiana
Where I still
reside
in the low lands
below sea level.
“My work is mostly comprised of found and revered objects. Though it is my highest hopes sometimes for them to sit on a pedestal, I think they feel most at home best back in an environment of which suits them.”
-Allison Reho, Beaumont, Texas.