OM.2024.047 -Allan Bealy - USA

OM.2024.047 -Allan Bealy - TREADS - 8 x 8 inches - collage on panel - sent for: Visual Poetry and Color

Allan Bealy is a Canadian artist and graphic designer, who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In the 80’s, Allan was co-publisher of Benzene, an arts magazine and has had several books of his collages published, most recently: Conjure by Red Fox Press (Ireland) in 2021. He has had solo shows in Canada, Sweden and the United States and has been represented in numerous group shows. Allan’s practice focuses on collage and mixed media.

Artist Statement

I consider myself primarily a storyteller. I try to explore emotion and dream states with  unexpected visual orientations and textural juxtapositions. I like to use a muted palette  and build up the work on a substrate of stained and distressed papers and envelopes.  

Those backgrounds can hang around the studio for days or weeks before being  permanently hidden by layers of collage and decollage. The cuts and the decisions I  make with paper and the way the image comes together is always surprising — part  dream, part mysterious other. The collages function like journal entries and track my  moods. With some of the simpler pieces repeat motifs can work like semaphore, a  shortcut to understanding. Like anything, the viewer carries the key to their own  interpretation.  

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