“Beyond Living” A Virtual Exhibition
Michael Alan at Raindrop Space Opens December 16th through January 1st
New York, New York, For Immediate Release
A timely virtual online exhibition opens December 16th 2020, featuring the work of native New York artist Michael Alan. The exhibition titled ‘Beyond Living’ features over 50 works available for purchase through January 1st, 2021. It is hung and filmed at Raindrop Space presented in the form of a video tour with an accompanying digital catalog.
Raindrop space is a co-op space created by Michael and his mother, demonstrates caring for our elders, especially during the pandemic. They organize their efforts to take care of each other and create this space in the central part of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Proceeds from this exhibition go to Michael’s mother.
Alan shows his latest works on paper, along with a few older icons, utilizing his signature mark making, symphonic use of color, dynamic graphic composition and trenchant social commentary in a show that is as wide ranging as it is exciting.
“Michael Alan taps into the soul of a dark comedian’s agony and uses that to paint it forward, encapsulating the energy of the current moment. In the process he creates masterful work like an empathic machine that is a reflection of our now, and is also timeless and prophetic of our future.” -NY-ART News
The theme of the virtual exhibition ‘Beyond Living’ ties in to Alan’s thematic ideology always asking us to raise 0ur spirits through art, through deep meditated work.
“Document your time in this period the way you want. Go against all trends, especially now when you are being force fed everything. This is the time to make your own vision. Let’s change the culture and actually create a culture that gives people deeper content.”
View works available now and Video is available on December 16th
The artist’s instagram: www.instagram.com/michaelalanalien
Contact artisticrevolution@gmail.com for sales. Work is available for worldwide shipping or pickup from the Lower East Side.
Artist’s Bio:
Michael Alan is a native NYC 1977 NON STOP creative force who’s roots lie in old NYC underground culture, running events and clubs from a young age in the early 90s. Ties and connections from his endless drawing publicly all around the city. He ran shows at the Palladium, Club Expo, Sound Factory, Remote Lounge, Pyramid, to name a few and his own club Michael Alan’s Playhouse. He bridged the gap with Sunday school which took place every Sunday throughout New York where anyone could come display their art or perform, he kept no percent. As a very young kid club promoter he was drawing live at all these huge shows which led him to his path to show at galleries from a very young age. He went from DJing, running performances, spray painting backdrops and helping his friends to showing in Chelsea as a kid.
He is famous for his signature line work that has made an impact on NYC. His work varies from drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints, collage, murals, installations, music, and performance. He has various gallery representation, as well as commercial clients (HBO, ABC, DJ Atrak, Cormega, SVA etc.)
Michael Alan’s work occupies a living, color coordinated, extra dimensional, linear stage, where everything is happening at the same time. He creates multiple overlaying and underlying techniques to create a beautiful, yet raw and fragile visual language. Various figures and abstract elements pulsate and unfold at the same time in his work. He defines it in Alan Ket’s short film as “figurative abstraction”.
Michael’s work ranges from comedic, satyrical, and sinister to lovely and kind, raw and emotional to punk, fashionable to unfashionable, and destructive to harmonic. It contains colorful overlapping continuous detailed line work. The subject ranges from beautiful figures to raw New York commentary. There are paintings inside paintings inside paintings. You can look and see a homeless man fighting a knight on a horse from the Renaissance, or just see what you want to see. Michael’s main goals as an artist are to represent New York City, to never give up, never stop growing, and to create work every day and every night.
Every use of material from oil to ink to pastel to spray, even cut ups of the artist’s own drawings are combined into epic visions of emotional forms inhabiting inviting puzzles, or serene complex linear structures connected by looping bolts of pure pigment. They are alive. You are alive.
Alan is extremely prolific, laboring away for 12 hours each day, working anywhere in NYC from home, on the bus, his studio, his performances, friend’s hangouts, even doctor’s visits. He has produced over 2,500 completed artworks in spite of enduring massive trauma to his physical body.
“I am Michael Alien, an alien who wants good and to exist with a twist of chaos and a big splash of toxic paint!”— Art Info
For Michael Alan, art is a combination of harmonious opposites, close observation, catharsis, a means of communication and a radical juxtaposition of dimensional elements. He challenges everything: concepts of figure, composition, media and movement, including the language of drawing. Exploring the ambiguity of time and history, Alan’s work focuses on translating energy into images.
Alan was born in the summer of 1977, in Bushwick during the New York City blackout. His work has been featured in 9 New York solo shows, over 200 group shows, and over 200 Living Installations. His work has been discussed in over 200 publications, books and media sources, including the New York Times, The Huffington Post, Bomb Magazine, Art 21, NBC’s Today Show, Marie Claire Italia, Frank 151, Art+Auction, the New York Post, Fox Channel 5, the Village Voice’s “Best in Show”, The Creator’s Project, Art Forum, the Gothamist, Time Out New York, Vice, Frame, American Artist, Animal, Hyperallergic, Curbs and Stoops, Cacao and many more.
In addition to his work as a multi-media artist, Michael is the founder and director of the Living Installation, where human beings are transformed into unique, living art objects. These happenings are often set to Alan’s original music, which is recorded featuring artists such as Tim “Love” Lee, Mike’s mom and dad, Renaldo of Renaldo and the Loaf, The Krays, Jello Biafra, Jesse from Yuppiside, The Residents, Tommy Ramone, Ariel Pink, Meredith Monk, Japanther, Ramsey Jones, Geneva Jacuzzi, 3 Teens Kill 4 (remix), Odd Nasdam, and Satellite Jones.
“Beyond Living” Catalog of Works
Contact artisticrevolution@gmail.com for sales.
Work is available for worldwide shipping or pickup from the Lower East Side.
“Red Orange” 7 1/8 x 7 in matted framed. Watercolor, pen, markers on paper $1700
“Jenny Got Bad” 6 x 6 in matted framed. Collage, pen and paint on paper $1500
“Masked” 7×7, in matted framed. watercolor, ink, colored pencil, paint marker on paper $2000
“Giraffe” digital print 11”x14” signed and numbered. Edition of 3. 2 available, 1 sold. $500
“Blue Baby” digital print 11”x14” signed and numbered. Edition of 3. 1 available, 2 sold. $700
“Desire” 5 x 7. Silkscreen print on white archival paper. Signed and numbered. $375
”Typhoon Standing” 9 x 12 Mixed media, pen, oil stick, paint and ink on notebook cover $2400
“Kang” 8 ½ x 11 Paint, cut and repurposed painting, Ink on archival colored paper $1600
“Octopus” 9 x 12 watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper $3400
11”x14” digital prints available. Signed and numbered. Edition of 2. $500
“Trepidation” 6 1/4 x 9 Pen and wash on paper $1200
“Smushy” 6 x 9 Ink and collage on paper $1400
“Coney Island Coaster 11x 14 Ink and Wash on paper $3800
11”x14” digital prints available. Signed and numbered. Edition of 2. $500
“Faded” 5 x 7 Ink and wash on paper $1000
“Paintings in Paintings in Paintings in Paintings” 285” x 28” watercolor, acrylic, cut and repurposed drawings, matte medium, ink on panel $20,000. Sold.
“Ice Breaker” 8”x10” collage, ink, acrylic, marker, on paper. $2400
“Relapse in Time” Collage, oil stick, cut and repurposed drawing, marker, ink on archival colored paper. $1700
“Living Installation mask” 18 ½ x12 x 9 Structural assemblage with found elements, fabric, paint, toys, plaster, glue and tape $1500
“Radical change. We cant continue like this” 11×14 Ink, wash and pencil on paper $3400
11”x14” digital prints available. Signed and numbered. Edition of 2. $500
“I will I will I will I will Not” 8 ½ x 10 ½ Ink, collage, paint, crayon and marker on paper $$1700
“Caticle” 8 ¾ x 12, Ink, pen, oil pastel, collage on paper $2000
“Push On” 6 x 9 Ink, paint, color pencil, collage on paper $1300
“Many Faces in a Face” 8 ¼ x 11 ½ Ink, paint, collage, colored pencil on paper $2800
11”x14” digital prints available. Signed and numbered. Edition of 2. $500
“Balloon Head” 8 ¼ x 11 ½ Wash and pen on paper $1700
“Selfless” 8 ¼ x 10 ¾ Ink, pencil, plastic google eye, pint on paper $$2400
“Broken Mirror Theory” 8 ¼ x 11 ¼ Ink, paint, pencil, marker, collage on paper $2600
11”x14” digital prints available. Signed and numbered. Edition of 2. $500
“My Skin Burned off in 2020 from Watching the News” 12 x18 Pen, silkscreen on paper $3200
“Amorphous” 9 x 12 Watercolor, wash, paint marker on paper $3100 (ft on CBS’s Tell Me A Story)
“Star War Fan Bot” 5 x 7 Pen and wash on paper $1200
“Burn It Down” 5 x 7 Silkscreen, paint marker, pen, ink on paper $800
“Life of Harry” collage, ink, pastel on collectable baseball card. $400
“Looking Forward Fucked the Past” 11 x 14 Pen and wash on paper $3600
“Multi Eyed Madonna” 11 x 14 Pen and wash on paper $4500
11”x14” digital prints available. Signed and numbered. Edition of 2. $500
“A Break From New York” 9 x 12 Pen and wash on paper $2000
“Seated Abstracted Nude” 11 x 14 Pen, pencil, wash on paper $3000
“Skull 77” 11×14 Pen and wash on paper $3400
“Joker” 11 x 15 Pen and wash on paper $3200
“Anxiety Bunny” 11×15 Pen and wash on paper $4500
“Witching Hour” 11 x 14 Pen, paint, pencil, marker and wash on paper $3600
11”x14” digital prints available. Signed and numbered. Edition of 2. $500
“The Art Couple” 8 ½ x 11 Pen, collage, wash, paint and marker, tape $1800
“Clown Girl” 11 x 14 Pen, wash, Ink, paint on paper $2600
“Andy and Skull” 9 x 12 pen, wash, watercolor on paper $3500
“End Times Begin Times” collage, ink, pastel on collectable baseball card. $400
“The Argument” 36 x 48 pen, wash, watercolor, spray paint, blow pen on panel $1600
Ice Cream Sundae 36” x 48” on panel. watercolor, ink, colored pencil. 2011. $24,000
“Empathy” 22 x 30 floated in frame. ink on paper $7500
“Test Subject” digital prints available, limited edition of 5. Signed and numbered. $500
Skull. Silkscreen print on white archival paper. 11”x14” Edition of 5. Signed and numbered. 2 left. $500
Jadda Cat. Silkscreen print on white archival paper. 11”x14” Edition of 10. Signed and numbered. $600
“Storm Cloud” acrylic and gouache on collectable baseball card. $400
Time Passing By. Silkscreen print on white archival paper. 11”x14” Edition of 6. Signed and numbered. $600
Mother and Child. Silkscreen print on white archival paper. 9”x12” Edition of 6. Signed and numbered. $500
“Acceptance Speech of the Local Ice Cream Man” collage, paint marker, gouache on collectable baseball card. $400
Skull. Silkscreen print on neutral archival paper. 12 x18 Edition of 7. Signed and numbered. $1,000
