Alan Leitner

Alan Leitner

Alan Leitner is an American abstract artist. He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Angeles. Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. He received his B.S. in art in 1971 from Woodbury University in Los Angeles, where he met his first wife who wanted to move to Hawaii. Also in 1971, he acquired an art foundry that produced blown glass, sculpture, ceramics and paintings, which contributed greatly to his understanding of art. In 1987, he received a M.F.A. in painting from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The graduate program required students to do some teaching, and through this teaching he met Alyn Brownley who at the time headed the art program at Leeward Community College. Brownley requested Alan to teach her art class for one semester while she pursued a move to University of Hawaii at Manoa. After graduation, Dr. John Conner, the department associate dean, offered Alan a full-time teaching position at Leeward Community College. Alan also taught at Honolulu Community College and University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Leitner's art is abstract, utilizing muted earth tones as the main colors. He often affixes various objects to his canvases. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu and the Honolulu Academy of Arts are among the public collections holding works by Alan Leitner.

References

* Clarke, Joan and Diane Dods, "Artists/Hawaii", Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1996, 32-37.
* Yoshihara, Lisa A., "Collective Visions, 1967-1997", [Hawaii] State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1997, 118.


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