BIO

Alan Loehle received an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Arizona in 1979. He now lives and works in Atlanta and is an Associate Professor of Art at Oglethorpe University. In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting, he has received grants for painting from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and a Fellowship in Painting from The National Endowment for the Arts.

 Mr. Loehle has exhibited his work widely since 1983. Recent exhibitions include Year-07 Art Projects at County Hall, London, and Flow, in Miami, Florida; his drawing are currently in the Artists’ Registry at the Drawing Center in New York. Museum exhibitions include the Weatherspoon Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, Polk Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. His drawings were featured in a print exhibition of drawings in The Paris Review in 1999, and his work is in the collections of the Arkansas Arts Center, Polk Museum of Art, MOCA GA, and the Reading Museum.

ABOUT THE WORK

The new paintings are a continuation of Alan Loehle’s previous work, drawing on singular images that serve as metaphors for the fragility and transience of life, reminders of why we should pay attention to the Ephemeral Now. These new paintings have a shimmering resonance that invites the viewer to confront the raw elegance of human existence. They ask us if we can exist alone with our vulnerabilities as a way of initiating a response to the pathos of the fleeting moment.

 

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