Jerry Allen
| Jerry Allen | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 28, 1960 Rosetown, Saskatchewan |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Canadian |
| 🏫 Education | BFA Concordia MFA University of British Columbia |
| 💼 Occupation | Artist |
| Known for | Painting, drawing, writing |
| Notable work |  |
| 🌐 Website | http://jerryallen.org/ |
Jerry Allen (born July 28, 1960) is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Vancouver. He is known primarily for painting and drawing. The works range from conceptual in viewpoint to representational in character. Allen's artwork first gained critical notice in the mid 1990s with large-scale wall drawing exhibitions of numerical fonts.
Work and artistic influences[edit]
In the early 1980s Allen formed the short lived rock band First Aid for Choking that would later include SNFU bassist Dave Bacon. In 1982, curator Jonathan Goodman of the Mendel Art Gallery and filmmaker Kenneth Anger presented a selection of his films with the band closing out each screening. In the mid 1990s Allen extended a concentration of life drawing into biographical portraits.[1] The various titles of the work often index the name and birth year of the subject and depictions range from the well known to the obscure. "The painting asks us to think about time both in terms of its production and the act of looking."[2]
These portraits sometimes reveal the person prior to the moment that came to define them. In other instances actors stand in to represent the subject in the form of biographical film stills from promotional material.[3] In another iteration from the exhibition Roman Portraits, "Allen creates a series of impressionistically coloured heads, each one floating uneasily on the surface of a white picture plane.[4] Commenting on Allen's earlier portraits the writer Christopher Brayshaw foreshadows some of the more recent production. "The works, in Allen's words, 'create views of self-consciousness.' They represent how their subjects think of themselves. Classical portrait artists emphasize gestures and body language that distinguish their subjects and make their inner lives visible."[5]
In 2008, Allen began recording monthly time in a body of work called Timeline. The paintings and drawings alternate the relationship of time as a series of works and a single body of work brought about in segments. While initially started and finished in the month of production, the later production stretches over several months and brackets much larger sequences of monthly time. The Timeline works are the result of many projects involving wall drawings while using very specific conditions of exhibition. "Over the past 20 years, Vancouver artist Jerry Allen has quietly and consistently examined every nuance of modernist painting and the language that surrounds it."[6]
Work by Allen is in the collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Paloma Campbell, Belkin Invitational ex. cat. 2003
- ↑ Paloma Campbell, Belkin Invitational ex. cat. 2003
- ↑ https://canadianart.ca/online/see-it/2011/01/27/faces/
- ↑ Scott, Michael, Vancouver Sun, 2001
- ↑ Brayshaw, Christopher, Painting's usefulness on display, The Courier, (November 14, 2000)
- ↑ Richmond, Cindy, Jerry Allen, Western Living Magazine, (March 2004)
- ↑ "Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery | Faces: Works From The Permanent Collection". belkin.ubc.ca. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
Further reading[edit]
- McVeigh, Jennifer, "Show Predicts Future of Contemporary Art", Calgary Herald (January 21, 2006)
- Canyon, Brice, ed. "Hotel Motel, Live at the End of the Century", Visible Art Society (2000)
- Embry, Kerry ed., "Twelve People", Front Magazine, Vol.IX, #7, (December 1998)
- Scott, Kitty, Browser, compact disc, Artropolis (May 1997)
- Scott, Kitty, It was said, video tape and transcript, Or Gallery and Mock Trial (March 1997)
- Kearns Patricia ed., Related Fixtures, audio transcript (April 1986)
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