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| Discharger, everything I could find on canvas, 4ft x 4ft, 2010 |
| Michael Alan |
Everything is happening at the same time. I ride that current, the tornado, the space in
between, grabbing everything and rearranging it. Dissecting, amplifying, sampling,
exploding, fading, layering and subtracting. My drawings on top of my drawings inside
my paintings, choped into pieces, living collapsing time. I explore spaces that walk
along the edge of the figure, the abstract and the next moment. I use the surfaces as an
emotional reader to document these intangible realities in a constant changing image.
Some of the spaces are completely pushed to extreme, and some parts loop, so you can
reconstruct it's creation in your mind.
between, grabbing everything and rearranging it. Dissecting, amplifying, sampling,
exploding, fading, layering and subtracting. My drawings on top of my drawings inside
my paintings, choped into pieces, living collapsing time. I explore spaces that walk
along the edge of the figure, the abstract and the next moment. I use the surfaces as an
emotional reader to document these intangible realities in a constant changing image.
Some of the spaces are completely pushed to extreme, and some parts loop, so you can
reconstruct it's creation in your mind.
I work in 5 levels like a gray scale or the variations of tempos on a music album. From a
line drawing to a slightly muted drawing to a more colorful denser work, to a collaged,
multi-media layered painting, I then bring the work to the public, construct it live on my
friends, and finally, take this Living Installation, de-install it and drag it back to my studio
and rework the scraps, the photos, the energy of it into the piece it into next painting. This
is my full circle, there is no order to the circle, which leaves me constantly open. The work
is about energy, and drawing from the world, on the world, on people, and then taking parts
that had humans activating the work, and reworking them into a new piece. The work in
one sense is continuous. A show goes up, comes down, a circle goes round and round.
line drawing to a slightly muted drawing to a more colorful denser work, to a collaged,
multi-media layered painting, I then bring the work to the public, construct it live on my
friends, and finally, take this Living Installation, de-install it and drag it back to my studio
and rework the scraps, the photos, the energy of it into the piece it into next painting. This
is my full circle, there is no order to the circle, which leaves me constantly open. The work
is about energy, and drawing from the world, on the world, on people, and then taking parts
that had humans activating the work, and reworking them into a new piece. The work in
one sense is continuous. A show goes up, comes down, a circle goes round and round.
| Tunnel white ink on paper, 18 x 24, 2011 |
“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
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, during the New York City blackout. His work has
been featured in 7 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 video and print, NBC’s Today Show, Marie Claire Italia, Art+Auction, the New
York Post, The Economist, Fox Channel 5, the Village Voice’s “Best in Show”, Time Out
New York, Hyperallergic, Curbs and Stoops, and Cacao Magazine.
In addition to his work as a solo artist, Michael is the Creator of the Living Installation.
From a line drawing to a slightly muted work to a more colorful work to a collaged, layered
piece, then bring the work to the public, construct it live on my friends, take the Living
Installation, de-install it and drag it back to my studio and rework it into next painting.
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
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, during the New York City blackout. His work has
been featured in 7 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 video and print, NBC’s Today Show, Marie Claire Italia, Art+Auction, the New
York Post, The Economist, Fox Channel 5, the Village Voice’s “Best in Show”, Time Out
New York, Hyperallergic, Curbs and Stoops, and Cacao Magazine.
In addition to his work as a solo artist, Michael is the Creator of the Living Installation.
From a line drawing to a slightly muted work to a more colorful work to a collaged, layered
piece, then bring the work to the public, construct it live on my friends, take the Living
Installation, de-install it and drag it back to my studio and rework it into next painting.
| A still from The Wedding, Everything x Everything on Raquel Mavecq, Emil BN, Miss Suzie Q, photo by Worm Carnevale |