Exhibition Calendar and other events:  * * *  

         2010 -

         September

         Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY    845-424-3960

         PHOTOcentric

         September 3 - 26   Opening reception: Friday September 3   6-8pm

         3 images from Comforts of Home have been selected and awarded First Prize for this group show.

                       www.garrisonartcenter.org/upcoming.html

         August

         Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th St., NY, NY    212 226-4151

          The 2010 Chelsea International Exhibition - 3 pictures from Comforts of Home

          August 17-September 7, 2010

          Reception: Thursday, August 19.......6-8pm

          Gallery hours: Tues-Sat.....11am-6pm

                       http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistinvite/allen_bryan.aspx

          8th Annual Saugerties Artists Studio Tour

          August 14 & 15.......10am - 6pm

          The Saugerties Artists Studio Tour keeps growing. Beginning with 11 studios in 2003, our 8th year

          year offers  visitors views into the creative world of over 40 studios. I'll be demonstrating how I make the

          digital constructions in my Comforts of Home series.

          Download or pickup a free map at the tourism kiosk at McDonald’s on Rt 212 and many other

          locations, look at the artists’ pages, plan your route and get in your car. You won’t see everything

          in one weekend…and that’s a reason to return next year. Many studios are open by appointment year

          round. We’re “kid friendly”, too.

                                   www.saugertiesarttour.com

                                   click here for invite

         Public Reception for the tour: at Opus 40 on Friday, Aug.13 from 6-9pm.

         Work by most participating artists will be on exhibit in the Opus 40 gallery/store for a month.

        July

        Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

        28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition
        July 9 - August 22, 2010  
        Main Gallery, Gallery X, Gallery Y
        Juried by Hannah Frieser, Director, Light Work (Syracuse, NY)

                                  www.hcponline.org/exhibitions.asp?imgid=2179&gx=future&gy=&exid=129                    

        June - August

Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery in the Ripley Center, Washington, DC

 

"Revealing Culture" - an international juried exhibition of work by artists with disabilities organized by VSA Arts.

June 8 -August 29, 2010

 

        The groundbreaking exhibition consists of over 130 objects and includes painting, drawing, photography,

 printmaking, sculpture, a looped video program and large scale installation.

        Four pictures from Comforts of Home are on view.

                                www.vsarts.org/revealingculture 

                                       click here for PDF of article

         April

 Blue Sky Gallery/Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, 122 NW 8th Ave. Portland, OR 97209

         April 1 - May 2

 Opening reception: Thursday, April 1- a tradition in the region's arts community.

         This was the first West Coast exhibition of pictures from my Comforts of Home series.

 

                                 www.blueskygallery.org         503-225-0210 

        This exhibition was supported in part with funds from the Strategic Opportunity Stipends Program through the

New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council On The Arts, administered in Mid Hudson by Garrison Art Center.

       *** 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

  “Saugerties-based photographer Allen Bryan is coming into his own this season. He's one of nine photographers included in the medium-specific Photography Now 2008 compendium exhibition up at the Center for Photography at Woodstock through June 1. Moreover, he's had a one-man show up at Unison Arts & Learning Center in New Paltz, up through this weekend, that presages inclusion in a series of top regional juried shows over the coming months in Virginia, New Jersey and the metro area. 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