I’m Alyson Petruncio (b. 1993), an artist residing in Virginia, USA. I studied biology and bioinformatics and have worked several years in biomedical research and cellular biology. I started drawing frequently in 2018, initially through commissioned portraits. After a while, commissions began to feel restrictive, so I stepped away from them and let the work change on its own. The drawings gradually became more surreal and strange, shaped by personal experiences and sorting through a shifting worldview.

I work mostly in colored pencil, sometimes combined with pen and acrylic marker. I like how bright and almost playful those materials feel, especially when they’re used to draw things that are unsettling or a little off.

A lot of my work pulls from Americana. Suburban streets, familiar cultural symbols, and imagery tied to the American dream come up often, but they’re distorted or rearranged into something more dreamlike. Faces warp, expressions feel uncertain, and spaces sit somewhere between real and imagined. I’m interested in that tension, when something looks familiar at first but starts to feel wrong the longer you stay with it.