Envisioning our Isolation II
By Allan Gorman | February 10, 2021
The following paintings continue a series that I started around the time Covid-19 entered our lives. The work extends my meditation on the loneliness and melancholia brought about by the pandemic. The new paintings are inspired by the plays of shadows and light, and the emptiness we find in our profoundly changed environments.
Shadows on a Kearny Building, oil on panel, 20”x16” 2020
Stairs at Broad Street Station, oil on panel, 18”x18” 2020
Shadows on Provost Street, oil on panel, 20”x16” 2021
Black Door in an Empty Storefront, oil on panel, 20”x16” 2021
Copyright © 2021 Allan Gorman
Allan Gorman’s resume includes over 120 exhibition showings in museums, galleries and major art fairs. He was the recipient of a Fellowship for Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and was awarded resident fellowships to Vermont Studio Center in 2011, 2014 and 2018. In 2016, he was selected for a fellowship residency by the ESKFF Foundation at Mana Contemporary. Gorman maintains a studio practice in Kearny, New Jersey.