Alan Glicksman
Contents of the Green Box
Exhibition Catalogue
Nov 17 - Dec 31, 2022
Drawers Gallery
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Mutant Melodies

Nov 17 - Dec 31, 2022
Headbones Gallery
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and
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Alan Glicksman
- Contents of the Green Box
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Opening Reception
2-5pm –Saturday,
November 17, 2022
Public
is welcome
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Alan Glicksman is a
storyteller who is so full of characters and scenes
and action that cinematic scope is captured in
everyone of his detailed drawings like
feature length
movies within two dimensional planes. Sometimes it
is a black and white film, but most often a full
chromatic technicolor describes the narratives. His
works would fall into a folk or fairytale genre if
they were books, perhaps even sci-fi. If the story
had been framed as lyrics, they would be a jazzy
riffing traces of city life or sweetly warbling
classical compositions where the upper scales trill
so that the characters trip about on tip toe. There
is a range of emotions talked around in these tales
but nothing overtly abrasive for the characters are
held securely
within the four edges of the papers. The landscape
is shallow but not hollow, and everyone fits into
the picture.
Naivete at its most authentic and guilelessly
refreshing, Glicksman’s work contains a sense of
being near a fount of creativity, a well spring that
is thirst quenching and revivifying. It is as if
someone has said “make me a painting, a drawing,
color me something about what you are thinking“ and
the resultant imagery became a picture which had
generously been gifted to just you, as familiar as
your own family story. The branches on a Glicksman
tree join together mankind and the animals to
fashion an existence that is fulfilling, mutually
supportive and sustaining. Diverse, without
exceptions and open to engagement, Alan Glicksman
pours images onto his drawing board honestly,
allowing the hic-cups to provoke a laugh while
serious matters are turned over with awestruck, wary
curiosity. The other Ecclesiastical quote that is
also aired is “A time for every purpose” and this is
the purposeful time that Glicksman draws and also
draws from.
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