Artist Statement
In the series, Comforts of Home, the panoramic format invites us into some precarious places and unsettling living situations. They are pictures of a world that isn’t as real as it looks at first glance, that question comfortable reality.
Process Statement
These pictures are figments constructed from slide and digital images, varied light sources and lenses, altered perspectives and depth of field.
Allen Bryan’s career includes teacher of art and filmmaking, jewelry designer/goldsmith and for the last 30 years, photographer. His advertising photography studio specializes in “tabletop” products such as jewelry and home accessories. Since 1998, he has been exhibiting photographs of the landscape and interior spaces.
The series, Comforts of Home, came about as he searched for connections between his early quickly taken street photography and the slower, contemplative landscape work that followed.
Pictures from this series have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution; the J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Houston Center for Photography; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR; Albany Inst. of History and Art; Hyde Collection, Glens Falls NY; The Light Factory, Charlotte NC; Photo Resource Center, Boston; Center for Photography at Woodstock; Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock NY; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz NY; Gallery 1401, Philadelphia; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Art Museum at SUNY Albany NY; Muroff/Kotler Gallery, Stone Ridge NY.
Allen Bryan’s work is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum (Oregon); Center for Photography at Woodstock/Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital; Benedictine Hospital; Marist College; McDonald's
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