Alan Loehle

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Alan David Loehle (born 1954) [1] is an American contemporary artist and professor of art at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Education and career

Born in Chicago, Illinois, [1] Loehle received his B.F.A. from the University of Georgia in 1975 and his M.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 1979. [2] He began exhibiting his paintings in Atlanta and New York City in 1983, and his work was featured in a 1999 print exhibition in the Paris Review . [3] He has been teaching at Oglethorpe since 2001, [2] and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting in 2007. [4] [5]

Paintings

Loehle's work, which includes both paintings and drawings, is characterized by its ambiguity and disturbing images. [6] [7] A 2004 Creative Loafing article stated that his paintings are characterized by a "triumvirate of flesh: dogs, dwarfs and meat", describing his paintings as "...masterful ruminations on the slender cord separating life from death and humanity from debasement." [7] His specific works include a series of three oil paintings and one small ink-and-brush work, which he produced from 1997 to 2002 as part of a series centered around an achondroplastic dwarf model. These works include Walking Man, depicting an anonymous man walking on a desolate background landscape, and the Head, depicting the same model standing over a severed pig head. He has said that the images in these paintings are meant to symbolize the human condition. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Alan Loehle (b. 1954)". New Georgia Encyclopedia . Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  2. 1 2 "Alan Loehle Resume" (PDF). Marcia Wood Gallery.
  3. "Alan Loehle". Marcia Wood Gallery. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  4. "Alan Loehle". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .
  5. "Artnet News". Artnet . 2007-04-06. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  6. 1 2 Adelson, Betty M. (2005). The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation. Rutgers University Press. p. 165. ISBN   9780813535487.
  7. 1 2 Feaster, Felicia. "Paint it black". Atlanta Creative Loafing . Retrieved 2018-02-16.