Artist Statement
To create something beautiful, and then disfigure the dynamics of the structure. Go back in and recreate the system of drawing by finding the opposite. To distrust what is easy.
We are in a state of extreme change as a culture, people, planet and art period. My drawings, paintings and performances embrace inner change and cultural acceptance. They celebrate movement, and reach for the ultimate achievement of occupying and embodying multiple spaces at once, without confusion. These are the progressive actions & inner struggles that can be seen inside the bodies and forms of my subjects.
As we evolve, the balancing act of fast-paced life becomes a tightrope walk, and my work walks along this edge, pushing and pulling between beginning and end. The creative process behind my work reflects the ideas they present. This process pushes the boundaries of drawing and painting, by dissecting and amplifying, sampling and distorting with a touch of pretty. It's a combination of quick action, meticulous observation, harmonious opposites, agitation, crossbreeding, and unanswered hypotheses.
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Dates
Michael Alan Harmonious Opposites
Gasser Grunert
selected works available to view through Jan
524 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
b/w 10th and 11th Ave
Michael Alan Blurred/ Reformed/ Dissected
Eastern District Gallery
43 Bogart Street | Brooklyn, NY 11206
Friday 0ct 15th – Nov 14th
Drawings, painting, prints, and video
Dissecting, amplifying, sampling and distorting, Michael Alan explores spaces that walk along the edge of figure and the abstract. These pictures are interpretations of the human body within the world, which is simply an abstraction of our minds. The body is abstract, emotions are abstract. Alan uses his surface as an emotional reader to document these intangible realities.
Through various layers, media, and techniques, Alan approaches the work as a celebration of the attainable and unexplainable. Each work is disembodied, dislocated, space and anatomy are questioned. Body parts and their “order” are re-imagined, and working through layers, water color, line work, faces, shapes and a army of images, Alan renders perceptible volume in 2-dimensional pieces. Rather than making definitive statements, his pictures rest on the edge of a question and its answer: enigmas.
Exquisite Corpse
Gasser Grunert
curated by Tanja Grunert and David Salle
Oct – group show
ArtwalkNY Coalition For The Homeless
Skylight Studios
Thursday November 4th
MICHAEL ALAN STUDIO VISIT
By appointment: EMAIL