My paintings, acrylic on canvas, are abstract explorations of color and shape, line and mass, movement and balance. I begin my paintings with a plan. The original concept is just the beginning, however – I respond to what I see happening on the canvas. I work improvisationally, intuitively developing the image. My love of color and movement, music and dance are reflected in my painting’s shapes and lines. The finished work often reveals the history of revisions in the pentimenti of paint. My paintings embrace ambiguity and are imbued with multiple meanings.
Artist Biography
Alan Lankin has exhibited his paintings and works on paper at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Woodmere Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and galleries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Arizona. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania and he lives and works in the Philadelphia area.
Education
Villanova University, Villanova, PA MS
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA BA
Continuing Education
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Awards & Honors
2019
Third Place, Artists Equity Juried Exhibition, Commmunity Art Center, Wallingford, PA
2018 Jurors Award of Special Merit, Annual Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Honorable Mention, Artists Equity 2018 Spring Exhibition, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
2020 Unstoppable: Philadelphia/Tri-State Artists Equity 71st Anniversary Members' Spring Juried Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA Juror: Michelle Marcuse
2019 3-person Show, D'Arrigo Family Gallery, Salus University, Elkins Park, PA
Composition in Concert, DVAA @ IHP (Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Lightbox Film Center), East Alcove Gallery, International House Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Juror: Bill Timmins
Cerulean Arts Collective Associate Members' Exhibition, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Artists Equity 2018 Spring Exhibition, Baker Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester, PA Juror: Kassem Amoudi Received Honorable Mention
Motion Pictured, Da VinciArt Alliance& Lightbox Film Center, International House Philadelphia, PA Juror: Robert Cargni-Mitchell, Theater and Galleries Manager, Lightbox Film Center
Personally Speaking,Da VinciArt Alliance at International House Philadelphia, PA Juror: Katherine Kurtz
1996 Three-person show, Artists' House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group Show, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT
99th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Juror: Jack Beal
Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Juror: John Ollman, Director, Janet Fleisher Gallery
1995 Art of the State: Pennsylvania '95, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA Jurors: Zoltan Buki, Curator of Fine Art, NJ State Museum-Trenton and Halide Salam, Professor of Art, Radford University, Radford, VA
Philadelphia Views, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: Anne d'Harnoncourt, John Higgins, and Edward Rendell
98th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, West Chester University, PA Juror: Charles W Millard III, formerly UNC & Hirshhorn
Artists League of Mount Airy Juried Art Show, ALMA Gallery, Artists League of Mount Airy, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Two-person show, Vineland Public Library, Vineland, NJ
Philadelphia International Contemporary Art Competition, 479 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: Melissa Feldman, John Ittmann
131st Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: Patricia Mangione, John Costanza, and John Koomar
Springside Contemporary Art Competition, Springside School, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: Kathryn B Hiesinger, Michael Schantz, Darrel Sewell
Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA Juror: Richard Torchia
3rd Annual Juried Art Show, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: Nannette Clark, Melissa Feldman, Thora Jacobson, Richard Torchia
1993 Art of the State: Pennsylvania '93, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA Jurors: Richard Hood Harryman and Sam Peters
130th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia , PA Jurors: Jeanne Coryell, Libby Newman and William Southwell
Juried Painting and Sculpture Show, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Jurors: Lanny Bergner, Larry Becker and Heidi Nivling
96th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Jurors: Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason
Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA Juror: Fred Osborne