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An Early Work Late in Life -- The Art and Life of Danny Allen - Opening Reception
Join us on Thursday, March 1, 2018, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for an
Opening Reception for An Early Work Late in Life -- The Art and Life of Danny
Allen.
The Mercer Gallery exhibit runs from March 1 through March 29, 2018.
Daniel "Danny" Allen was a largely self-taught Rochester artist who lived
and worked in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Allen's work had a profound
influence on the regional cultural scene. He was openly gay and was one of the
first artists to address this issue in his work. Allen worked in a variety of
mediums for his drawings, sketches, paintings, collages and assemblages. This
exhibition will also include the work of Allen's friends: Kathy Calderwood,
Bill Whiting, Juliana Furlong Williams, Eva Weiss, António Petracca, Steven
Plunkett, and Ramon Martinez. During the exhibition, Mr. Bill Whiting will give
a talk based on his book An Early Work Late in Life--The Life and Art of Danny
Allen, which he wrote following the discovery of one of Allen's exquisite
surrealist miniatures lost in the archives of the Rochester Memorial Art
Gallery. Several other artists will also talk about their interactions with
Allen during the turbulent artistic counter culture of the late 1960s and early
1970s.
Free and open to the public.
Mercer Gallery, Brighton Campus, Bldg. 12, Room 114
Camp, Alisa
Visual and Performing Arts
10/04/2017