He has exhibited nationally in many individual, group, and juried exhibitions and has won numerous awards for painting in both national and regional competitions. In addition to teaching at Valdosta State University, Mr. Ally has been on the Art Faculty at MacMurray College, Texas Christian University, Edison State Community College, Tarrant County Junior College, the University of North Texas, and the Fort Worth Art Museum School.
Painting is the primal impulse to mark.
It's a visual record of the mind, the body, and the human spirit. For me there is an urgency to both create and destroy. Maybe it's out of sheer frustration that I work. Maybe it's just to satisfy a need to violate or to contradict. I'm not sure.