Allison's Bio
Allison Torneros is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles. Born on Christmas Eve in the San Francisco Bay area, and raised in Fremont, CA, she has been drawing ever since she can remember. Creativity has always played a major role in her life, and as a crafty kid she put together her own home-made comic books, built websites, altered clothing, and made her own jewelery. She eventually saw her craftiness as a money-making opportunity, and in her sophomore year of high school, began freelancing her web design skills. This led her to found Alto Creative, a design studio, in 2007.
By the age of 18, Allison was invited to participate in her first gallery group show months before entering her first year of college at UCLA where she is currently a senior. Her style is influenced by fashion illustration, the art of lucid dreaming, anime, and street art. In Allison's current body of work, her use of bold texture and rhythm aim to create a psychadelic experience inspired by dreamscapes and the capacity of human consciousness. PAPERBOOGIE is her alter-ego, a name (now retired) inspired by her background in dance, and is also the alias she assumes whenever she paint live at events.
