Press-Bio
Press
Patrick McMullan
Anti-Mag
Time Out New York
HMH NYC
Village Voice: The Living Installation w. Kenny Scharf
Greenpoint Gazette
NY Times
NY Post
“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.” Robert Shuster, The Village Voice, Best In Show
Bio
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 his own. Exploring the ambiguity of time and history, Alan’s work focuses on crossbreeding and the relationship of destruction and creation.
Alan was born in the summer of 1977, in New York City during blackout. His work has been featured in 5 New York solo shows and over 200 group shows. His work has been discussed in over 200 publications, books and media sources, including the New York Times, NBC’s Today Show, Marie Claire Italia, The New York Post, Fox Channel 5, the Village Voice’s “Best in Show”,Time Out New York, and the New York Press. In addition to his work as a solo artist, Michael is the founder and director of The Living Installation, where he transforms human beings into unique, living art objects that perform beautiful and treacherous acts for an audience of artists and viewers. He is also the founder and director of Drawathon Theater.
He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.