One of today's most exceptionally talented and highly acclaimed artists,
Alan Magee's intense scrutiny of visual objects and uncanny ability to capture
forms in nature are fully demonstrated in this exhibition, which included
large-scale Jacquard tapestries, woven by a Belgian loom to Magee's precise
digital specifications, and graphics.
Alan Magee was born in Newton, Pennsylvania, and in the mid-1960s
enrolled at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and later the Philadelphia
College of Art. Dissatisfied with the absence of realistic drawing in the Fine Art
department, Magee found himself preferring the level of meticulous detail explored
in the Illustration department. His thirst for exquisite realism led to an early career
as creator of book covers and illustrations for magazins such as Time, the Atlantic
and the New York Times Magazine. In the 1970s the artist relocated to Maine
and began choosing his own subjects from nature and industry, using his skill as
an illustrator to create fine art.
Magee's work has been the subject of eight monographs, and has been featured in
solo exhibitions at the James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania;
the Portland Museum of Art; the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland-Maine; and
the Frye Art Museum Seattle; Washington, among others.
His work is included in the public collections of the de Young Museum,
San Francisco, California; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; the Art Institute
of Chicago, Illinois; the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio;
and in many private collections.
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