New England artist Allison Newsomes present work addresses issues of the environment and human interaction as our landscape and human psyche have changed from the wilderness to the agrarian, into the industrial / post industrial. Allisons recent work explores fundamental, utilitarian, methods implemented on our land and water. Many of Allisons sculptures feel rooted in the Contact Period between Native American and Europeans, with figures made up of wells, baskets, apples, picket fences, circles of corn, all held together with wattle and daub.