Michael Alan

Michael Alan (born July 13, 1977, New York, NY) is a New York City based artist.

In 2010, Robert Shuster of the Village Voice wrote, in reviewing Alan's solo show Harmonious Opposites, “Alan’s thread-like lines are manically impulsive; they barely go an inch without detouring. Short, jagged strokes, tiny loops, and quick arcs make jittery, skeletal outlines of distorted human forms. Hasty daubs of blues and pinks wrap the frames with translucent skin while also conveying the blur of movement. Alan loves motion; in Move in Distance, a dancer’s five legs, kicking up in successive positions, pay homage to those futurist studies in dynamism. Even the reclining male figure of Prostitution looks restless—the angular, attenuated limbs and their busy surfaces bring to mind one of Egon Schiele’s more anxious self-portraits.” ^[1]

Alan's works cross various media, including drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, video and performances.^{[citation needed]}

Birth & Early Life

Alan was born in New York City in 1977.^[2]

Fine Art Career

In 2004, the same day he was featured on the cover of Elemental Magazine with a 6 page spread^{[citation needed]}, his first solo exhibition took place at (former) KMG Gallery in Chelsea. Entitled "Artsiety", the exhibition contained over 90 works. Since then, his work has been featured in 6 solo New York shows, at galleries such as McCaig & Welles, Greene Street Gallery, the Chelsea Art Museum, Eastern District, and Gasser Grunert. He's also been featured in over 200 group shows, including "10 x 10 Decade End" at Whitebox, Art Basel Miami, "Exhibitionists Both" at Jonathan Schorr, "Object Affection" at BOFFO Arts, and the Auction for Art World Digest at Rare Gallery. From 2008-2009, he was the Artist In Residence at Teatro Iati.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to his two and three dimensional pieces, he also creates ongoing, limited-engagement projects, such as the Living Installation, where Alan "animates his drawings by transforming spaces and performers. Using an assortment of materials, including prints, casts, paint, and found objects, he builds living sculptures that perform beautiful and treacherous acts." The Living Installation has taken place in such spaces as Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern, the Gershwin Hotel, and ABC No Rio.

However, his primary focus remains his drawings, paintings and sculpture.

Today

His work is represented by Gasser Grunert in Chelsea (NYC). His work has been discussed in over 200 publications, books and media sources, including the New York Times (print and video), NBC’s Today Show, Marie Claire Italia (an 8 page story including a studio tour), The New York Post, Fox Channel 5, the Village Voice’s “Best in Show”, Time Out New York, and the New York Press.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Shuster, Robert http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-07-20/art/tim-hawkinson-s-one-man-band-michael-alan-s-harmonious-opposites/ The Village Voice, Tuesday, Jul 20 2010
2. ^ ^{a b} Duggins, JoAnne L. B., http://www.anti-mag.com/michaelalan.html Anti-Mag
3. ^ http://www.michaelalanart.com/art/press-bio/ Michael Alan Press

External links

• http://www.patrickmcmullan.com/blogs/blogdetail.aspx?blogId=28&entryId=3652
• http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/04/30/style/1194839902475/life-as-a-runway.html
• http://www.evolver.net/user/eliott_edge/blog/destroy_image_short_evening_michael_alan
• http://www.michaelalanart.com

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