Alan Alldredge | Featured Artist
July 25, 2023
Alan Alldredge investigates processual abstraction with flowing pathways of texture, reflection and illusion. Taking cues from the natural world, he aims to reinforce the belief that beauty is part of the sacred through his work.
Alldredge’s cast monoprints force him to surrender to the process. Through the work’s meditative visuals and complex origins, he seeks to create a transcendent sacred object for the viewer.
By treating printing blocks as molds, each one is filled and painted with exotic materials and fused onto various textiles.
“I set my pieces up according to past experience using blended mediums that are purposefully incompatible. With this limited control, I cross my fingers as I press each one.”
Born in 1967, in Texas, he was raised from birth to be an artist by his mother, a professional artist and lay minister. Having begun his career at age 12, he aptly applied his art scholarship (TACEF Best Young Artist in Texas) to attend seminary. Reclusive and self taught, he is the consummate outsider. Flowing lines represent a passage into the meditative, and exotic finishes reflect the natural surroundings of his back woods studio.
