All day long
August 5–23, 2019
Opera House Arts, Stonington, Maine
All day long is an exhibition of 5 new paintings, presented in conjunction with Joanna Kotze’s What will we be like when we get there, which was presented at Opera House Arts on August 6th, 2019. Allen performed in this multi-disciplinary work, and his visual arts practice is regularly informed by collaboration, performance, and site-specificity. This group of works was produced in Maine in July 2019, and was inspired by the sea and skyscape of Stonington. The palette, fluid composition, and painting processes used to create All day long were also shaped by Allen’s experience collaborating with choreographer Joanna Kotze. Kotze’s process, which focuses on the use of chance, experiment, and play to produce idiosyncratic movement, was a direct influence on these paintings. Found materials, gravity, bleach, and an uncontrollable physical process were used to create sinuous lines, splashes of light, and violent striated patterns that evoke the tide and other natural rhythms found in the sea and sky – and dance. The title of this group of paintings comes from a line by Maine poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose poem Exiled speaks to her longing for the Maine land and seascape. Allen found inspiration in Millay’s lines, as they connect to the natural beauty and constant movement of the sea and sky surrounding Deer Isle.
To request more information about any of these works, please contact: Laura (lknicoll@gmail.com)
