"Sanctuary" by Alan Singer, 2025, matte acrylic
My latest painting "Sanctuary" is complete and it rounds out a year of experiments using geometry and the mathematics of cellular automata to create compositions which I carefully execute in paint; first drawing out a grid and then using my finest brushes to complete each segment of the work.
My guess is that it is a natural thing to look back over the year now to get a sense of what is happening. Now, I can reflect on the past and look forward to the future. There are daily reminders of how everything can abruptly change! I just read an obituary for an artist whose work I followed for many years - Janet Fish. She took my call once when I asked her to come up from NYC to teach my graduate painting class at R.I.T. in 2004. Here is a photo taken by Sue Weisler in the painting studios at R.I.T. with Janet and myself.
Janet Fish was one of many guest artists who I invited to come and speak to my students over the years when I was a Professor at R.I.T. Often the artists would come and do one-on-one with the graduate painting students and then later they might go over to do a talk in the evening at The Memorial Art Gallery in town.
This was something I always looked forward to, and that was having the opportunity to bring great artists in to speak about their work and this was a kind of follow-thru since I had been enjoying their artwork for so many years!
Lucky me, I get requests and interest in my art from far away! It is always a surprise how people find out about what I have been doing, and sometimes I even get to have an interview online. Here is a link to an interview I gave with Renee Rose of Chicago. She runs an enterprise called: "Explore Art". Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnAzJxcaogU
This coming year I will be working on a new book project with The Print Club of Rochester to celebrate their 100th Anniversary! I am doing my research now on their history - and I have a deep interest in printmaking, above is a photo made in the studios of R.I.T. with Liz Durand and me doing a proof of a Print Club presentation print by Gregory Amenoff.
