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Bio
| Name: |
Allan Linder |
| Age: |
45 |
| Gender: |
Male |
| I'm an: |
Artist |
| I'm also a: |
Sculptor |
| Location: |
New York, NY, United States |
| Height: |
6' 0" |
| Weight: |
175 lbs |
| Ethnicity: |
Caucasian |
| Eye Color: |
Blue |
| Hair Color: |
Black |
| About Me: |
Biography:
Allan Linder was born in California in 1966. He is the great grandson of Italian, immigrants that share a unique family history of four generations of artists’. A versatile artist from early childhood, Linder instinctively knew how to draw filling endless sketchbooks with his imagination. Linder is exhibiting in New York City where he resides, and has exhibited internationally in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Hamburg, Germany; Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain. His work is held in private c ...moreollections in the US from New York City, to Los Angeles, California. He has international collectors in Canada, Italy, France, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Japan and the Netherlands. He continues to work with a fever of enthusiasm and unceasing passion, challenging the viewer’s intellect with images of New York City and his imagination.
Early Life:
Allan’s father deserted his family when Linder was only eight years of age. Linder and his three siblings were raised by his single mother Diana that drifted through most of the Western states in search of work during his youth. This nomadic lifestyle contributed greatly to the development of his artwork and technique. His first artistic training was from his mother, later he apprenticed with several notable artists during his travels across America. At the age of fifteen he was nationally acknowledged for his work placing him in the top ten percent of art students in America. Linder went on to receive the Bank of America award for achievement in art and was given a financial scholarship. In 1984 he exhibited his already substantial body of work in his first gallery showing.
Personal Life:
In the 1980’s Linder was immersed in the art scene, and the growing rave scene in Los Angeles. He spent much of his time hanging out with local emerging and established artists, celebrities, writers, and poets during art receptions and parties, exchanging ideas and techniques as they developed their social and artistic skills which led him create some very interesting works. In addition to painting and sculpting, Linder enjoyed spinning records at some of the hottest night clubs and parties, exploring music and the club culture. Although his roots are in Realism, Linder experimented with a variety of painting styles and artistic movements, Neo-expressionism, Pop-art, Art deco style and Abstraction. His inspiration was the New York artists; Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Los Angeles artists; Patrick Nagel, Lari Pittman, and Kenny Scharf, in addition to many others. In the 1990’s Linder split his time between Los Angeles and New York City, maintaining painting studios in both Hollywood and SoHo for several years. Eventually the pull of the Big Apple led him to settle in New York during the beginning of the new millennium. In New York City, Linder opened an artist run gallery with a business partner to explore the art scene, and create a community for like minded artists to exhibit their work. He started the ground floor “Artists Gallery” in Chelsea, the heart of the New York art scene. Chelsea is home to more than 100 art galleries and museums in New York City. The Artists’ Gallery exhibitions focused on different cultural and political themes ranging from Art as Therapy to Pop Music. Linder would often co-curate exhibitions, and include elements of spoken word, music, performance art, video, installations, paintings, sculpture and poetry. Along with his own work Linder exhibited the work of numerous emerging artists; Boom, Olan, John Goetz and Miko Goodnough as well as established painters like the abstract expressionist Robert Goodnough, renowned illustrator Gary Aagaard, Howard Eisman, Gary Jurysta and Leon Golub. The Artists’ gallery did very well for several years, but the bursting New York real estate market eventually caught up with the gallery and it closed its doors in 2004 after exhibiting more than 150 artists from 12 countries. less |
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Linder's Work:
Allan Linder’s early work reflects his experimentation with materials, mediums, and subject matter. Most of his early paintings tend to be more colorful and expressive, he incorporates symbolism, shapes, numbers, and objects, the people that he paints have a sense of mystery and mysticism. His style varies from painting to painting as does his signature. With his stepfather in the military, Linder attended more than eight elementary schools around America further diversifying h ...moreis social perspective. Linder accepted his stepfather’s surname, Shaw, and painted as Allan Shaw for most of the years between 1979 and 1995, making these unique Shaw paintings very collectible today.
Linder has worked with nearly every medium over the past 25 years to create his artwork. He has created early stone carvings, sculpture in wood, cast bronze, aluminum, welded steel, silver, earthenware, wax, and clay. He has also worked in paper, cardboard, pen and ink, charcoal, gouaches, watercolor, chalk pastel, oil pastel, oil paint, acrylic and of course pencil. Out of all of the mediums at his disposal, his passion lies with acrylic paint on canvas and simple pencil on paper.
With the advent of his thirtieth birthday, Linder forsook the Shaw name, finally accepting his true family name despite his father’s abandonment. Not only does Allan paint with the Linder surname, but his signature is created the same way on every painting from about 1996 to present. His style has matured and become more consistent with his skill. His recent artworks are very complex realistic scenes of New York City and the surrounding borough’s, he uses rich color along with dramatic lighting to instill a real sense of energy and emotion, just as you would find in the city that never sleeps. less |
| More Info: |
Exhibitions:
2008 - Group Exhibit, Fountain Art fair; Miami, FL
2008 - Group Exhibit, Anonyme Zeichner, Blutenweiss, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Gallery; Berlin, Germany
2007 - Solo Exhibit, Architectural Digest Home Design Show, New York, NY
2007 - Solo Exhibit, The Showroom, “Home Sweet Home” New York, NY
2006 - Group Exhibit, JHL Presents “Time is Money” Greenwich Village, NY
2005 - Benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Beverly Hills Friars Club, B.H., CA
2005 - Group Exhib ...moreit, East Coast Artist Benefit, The Performing Garage, Soho, NY
2004 - Three person Exhibit, “Shut up and Paint” The Aurora Gallery; Chelsea, NY
2004 - Group Exhibit, “History In The Making” The Aurora Gallery; Chelsea, NY
2004 - Group Exhibit, “Crossing the Bridge” Axelle Fine Arts Galerie; Brooklyn, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Aids Benefit” The Artists’ Gallery, Soho, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “9/11 Memorial Exhibit” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Surrealism Unbound” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Pop Music and Art” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Spring Retrospective” Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Neutral Current” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Solo Exhibit, “Transitions” The Studio Museum Bldg., Harlem, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “The Art Party” Show Night Club, New York, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “A New Beginning” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Plugged In” 35 Main Street Gallery, Sussex, NJ
2003 - Solo Exhibit, “Higher Elevation” Hiroko’s Place, Soho, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Art as Therapy” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “Future History” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Group Exhibit, “The Mind of an Artist” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003 - Solo Exhibit, “I want you to be where you want to be” Java & Jazz, NY, NY
2002 - Group Exhibit, “Transitions” The Artists’ Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2002 - Group Exhibit, “Lost in the city” Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NY
2002 - Group Exhibit, “Key hole of time” Galerie X, Hamburg, Germany
2002 - Solo Exhibit, “Moods” Rain Lounge, Williamsburg-Brooklyn, NY
2002 - Group Exhibit, “Seasons” Gallery Mali Villas Boas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 - Group Exhibit, “Unity Canvas” Williamsburg Art & Hist. Ctr., Brooklyn, NY
2002 - Group Exhibit, “9/11 Artists Response” Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
2002 - Group Exhibit, “Blue Print of life” Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NY
2001 - Group Exhibit, “Primitive” Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NY
1999 - Solo Exhibit, “Retrospective” Hollywood Warehouse Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1997 - Solo Exhibit, “Secrets” Creative Intelligence Agency Gallery, Burbank, CA
1995 - Solo Exhibit, “Thoughts and Dreams” Private Noho Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1993 - Group Exhibit, “Black and White” Installations One Gallery, Encino, CA
1992 - Solo Exhibit, “Inner Space/Outer Space” The Balboa Bldg., Northridge, CA
1990 - Group Exhibit, “Democracy" South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, CA
1990 - Group Exhibit, “Words and Images” Installations One Gallery, Encino, CA
1989 - Solo Exhibit, “Los Angeles International Exposition” Los Angeles, CA
1988 - Group Exhibit, “Portraits” Installations One Gallery, Encino, CA
1986 - Group Exhibit, “The Pencil and it’s Potential” Install One Gallery, Encino, CA
1984 - Solo Exhibit, “Fantasy” The New Gallery, Los Angeles, CA less |
| Links: | Allan Linder International Artist
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Comments
Janese
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I really enjoyed looking through your media! Your work is beautiful!
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Artmankc
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You have a very impressive background.I like your style, and diversity.
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