Exhibitions / Events ***

• 2013 - Delaware Art Museum - Creative Powers

• 2013 - Albany Airport Gallery - Albany, NY - Some Assembly Required  -  thru September 8, 2013 www.albanyairport.com/concourse_a.php      www.albanyairport.com/exhibitions.php
• 2012 - Muroff/Kotler Gallery - UCCC, Stone Ridge, NY - Narratives, Fabrications and Other Lies - 2 person show
• 2012 - SUNY Albany Art Museum - Albany, NY - Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2012 - GCCA Gallery - Catskill, NY - From Whale Oil to Whole Foods
• 2012 -The Philadelphia Foundation
• 2011 - Epson International Pano Awards - The Built Environment - a top 10 awardee The Built Environment
• 2011 - Albany Institute of History & Art, Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2011 - J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts/Terrace Gallery, Washington DC - Shift                                           
• 2011 - Umbrella Arts, NY,NY - Dinner
• 2011 - Philadelphia Museum of Art – Form in Art program
• 2011 - SF Austin State U. Ledbetter Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX - Texas National Exhibition
• 2010 – Smithsonian Institution International Gallery, Washington, DC – Revealing Culture
• 2010 – Houston Center for Photography -  28th annual juried members show
• 2010 – Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR – Comforts of Home - solo show
• 2010 – Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY - Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2010 - Garrison Arts Center, Garrison,NY – PHOTOcentric
• 2009 – Photographic Resource Center, Boston MA - Exposure:14th Annual Juried Exhibition
• 2009 - Light Factory, Charlotte, NC – 2nd Annuale
• 2009 – Silver Eye Center Center for Photography – New Works Gallery Online
• 2009 - Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock, NY – Intimate Views
• 2009 – Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY – Mohawk/Hudson Invitational - 3 person show
• 2009 – Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie , NY - PhotoWork ’09
• 2008 – The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA – 82nd Annual Photography Competition
• 2008 – Long Beach Island Center for the Arts, Loveladies, NJ – Print Center traveling show
• 2008 – Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY – Comforts of Home - solo Show
• 2008 – Albany Institute of History and Art – Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2008 – Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY – Medium is the Message
• 2008 – Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY - Photography Now 2008
• 2007 – University of the Arts/Gallery1401, Philadelphia, PA –The Photo Review Show
• 2007 – Catskills Gallery, Saugerties, NY – Out on a Limb -2 person show
• 2007 – Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock, NY- Woodstock Biennial/2007
• 2007 – Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO – Alternative Processes
• 2007 – Albany International Airport Gallery - Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2006 – Art Museum SUNY Albany - Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2006 -  Albany Inst. of History & Art - Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2004 – Schenectady Museum – Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region
• 2004 -  Woodstock Artists Assn.- Inside/Outside - solo show
• 2002 – Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz NY - Artists of the Hudson Valley
• 2002 – Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY - Photowork ’02
• 2000 – Coffey Gallery. Kingston, NY - The Color of Light - solo show
• 1999 – Erpf/Catskills Gallery, Arkville ,NY - Artists in Residence

        Collections

• Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon
• Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art/CPW collection, New Paltz, NY
• Benedictine Hospital, Kingston, NY
• Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital, Malvern, PA
• Marist College, Theater Building, Poughkeepsie, NY

       *** and...A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE COMFORTS OF HOME SERIES

   “Through Allen Bryan’s unsettling panoramic interiors of unoccupied living spaces, it is the highly crafted assemblage of space and time that presents a believable ghostly beauty and other worldliness.”

– essay by Darrin Ching [Klompching Gallery and Creative Director of PDN], juror for Photo Now2008, Center for Photography at Woodstock.

     “Allen Bryan’s collage photographs are really very much about our reliance and persistence of belief in traditional values regardless of the reality of our surround. He achieves this by juxtaposing images of multiple interiors and exteriors: inner life or it’s absence and the brutality of the outside world.”

– Joel Shapiro, sculptor. Juror’s essay, 2008 Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region, at the Albany Institute of History and Art.

    “…and Allen Bryan both take liberties with their medium, playing up photography’s illusionistic qualities. Bryan…composes his images, leading viewers to another double-take. In Shaved Noodles, a comforting interior scene is presented; however, beyond the windows the nightlife outside seems incongruous. This image comes from Bryan’s Comforts of Home series, which uses photography’s malleability to merge together time and space.”

– essay by Denise Markonish, curator at Mass MOCA and juror for Hudson Valley Artists 2008–The Medium is the Message at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY

  “What has created all the buzz is a new digital series, The Comforts of Home, that brings together Bryan's considerable talents honed as a commercial photographer with a surrealistic touch made possible via the manipulative possibilities of Photoshop and other tools.… I found myself reminded of disturbing dreamscapes, where one feels coddled and scared at the same time. Others have been reminded of the warrens that homeless persons make, of nestings - or of all homes, in light of the wide world encroaching on us at all times. Then again, there's also the idea of dirtied landscapes - as well as broken narratives that we can only guess at. They feel staged, and yet natural… Perfect for the CPW show - and well worth catching, altogether, at Unison while the chance is still there. Bryan has a great website for easy access, at www.allenbryan.com, but you have to see these works in print form to capture their grandeur, as well as the way that they've pushed this photographer to a new level of artistry.”

– Paul Smart, Ulster Publishing, Almanac art section-April 24, 2008

                       

    “Time has also taken its toll upon the interiors of Allen Bryan’s panoramic color photographs. The images are reminiscent of a stage set where there is an anxious, disquieting sense that something has just happened or is about to happen. Doors remain open, lights are on, but no one is present. Bryan leaves clever hints, but it is up to the viewer to imagine the rest.”

-juror’s essay by Leah Douglas, director and curator of Exhibitions Program, Philadelphia International Airport for the 2007 Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region at the Albany Airport Gallery

   “…Weather Report, a color photo by Allen Bryan of Saugerties is a beautifully composed still life with the richness and depth of a painting. Like a Renaissance masterwork, the work reveals both the interior and exterior of the rural cabin and the minute details of its various objects, softly lighted by a round, glowing lamp over a bare porcelain sink.”

- Daily Gazette, Albany/Schenectady NY - July 7, 2006

    “…Similarly, many of the more urbane pieces speak to the failure of manmade environments. Allen Bryan’s photograph Weather Report sets an impoverished interior against a ruined landscape. Linking indoors and out is the image of a weather report on a television monitor.”

- Metroland, NY Capital region – August 3, 2006