Alison Rouse Launer is an artist employing highly original materials to create art that unifies elements of crafts and nature. Ms. Rouse Launer creates designs with semi-precious stones and beads on animal skulls. The combination of luxurious and sensationally colored stones on the basic form of animals is impressive to view. Extremely intricate in their design, these artworks demonstrate that Ms. Rouse Launer has both the artistic vision and physical deftness to develop a signature style of art. Few artists are creating anything remotely like Ms. Rouse Launer's art, with its fabulous combination of beautifully arranged patterns and extraordinary bold presence. Her selection is powerful and dominant yet regal animals such as the bull, ram or buffalo. Therefore, the animal form, often with large, gorgeous horns, serves as the perfect frame on which Ms. Rouse Launer can enact her intuited designs. Each animal provides unique looks and opportunities, some being more ornate while others have straight, angular lines.
Ms. Rouse Launer's designs, with their spectacular use of color and beads, are reminiscent of her adopted home in New Mexico. The sophisticated and elaborate design reminds one of the Native American decor of the American Southwest region while the animal forms chosen are also native to the region, for the most part. Ms. Rouse Launer links the elements of fashion, craftwork and nature that are emblematic of the region as well. However, an art connoisseur from any location can still appreciate the precision, commitment, and skill with which Ms. Rouse Launer creates her artworks.
A skilled artisan who has received major national coverage for her fashion and design work, Ms. Rouse Launer has created her own studio, Ali Designs. Jewelry of Ms. Rouse Launer's has been feature by In Style and Vogue Magazines, as well as the Early Show. Ms. Rouse Launer's beaded skulls are her most recent artistic venture. Taking from 20 to 80 hours a piece to create, these fantastic and innovative art objects have been exhibited throughout the Southwest region.
