About
For Michael Alan, art is a combination of close observation, a catharsis, a means of communication and a radical juxtaposition of dimensional elements. He challenges everything: concepts of figure, composition, media and movement, including his own. Exploring the ambiguity of time and history, Alan’s work focuses on crossbreeding and the relationship of destruction and creation. Voracious and wild, each work contains deceptively delicate, rhythmic line work and detail. Alan integrates all artistic materials, creating unlikely but true amalgams within his works and the concepts behind them.
His newest series of work, “Harmonious Opposites”, is about the beauty of balance in a state of extreme cultural and artistic change. A celebration of movement, “Harmonious Opposites” explores the act of occupying and embodying multiple spaces at once, without confusion. The creative process behind it reflects this idea. Pushing the boundaries of drawing, painting, and performance, it dissects and amplifies, samples, and distorts media and bodies with a touch of pretty.
Alan was born in New York City during the infamous blackout of 1977. Raised in a consistently changing city, during a violent, rich and strange era – the 1980s – he has constantly questioned perceptions of time, space and the irrefutable symbiosis of creation and destruction.