BIOGRAPHY
Born in New York City, Alan Singer studied at the Art Students League and graduated with his BFA from The Cooper Union. Graduate study began at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his MFA, and he also had summer scholarships at Yale University, Boston University, and the Skowhegan School of Art in Maine. Alan is a painter and printmaker with over thirty solo shows to his credit. He has also published books and is a writer on the visual arts with many articles and lectures given over the years. Alan's blog, with over 440 entries, is called The Visual ArtWorker. He is a retired Professor at the School of Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.
Artist Statement
"I have always been interested in art and technology, and the relationship between art, science, and mathematics. In the past, I began studies directly from nature, and today I have added a landscape of forms that are based in geometry. When I put together a new composition, I often treat it like building a collage of different elements, or like a recipe—I add a little of this or that until the work looks right. I am open to the challenge and surprise of the unexpected, and in that way, I can move forward."