Allan Wash

My process probes linkages to primitive cultures, symbology and "spiritual magic" striving to discover the power of primal graphic cues and truth. This path tends to contradict societal mass consumption, media overload and technology obsession. My work explores "tribalism" and a love for primitive honesty, the patinated walls of fading paint, the brilliant colors of Mexico and muted earth tones of rural Spain, the utter simplicity of Africa and the convoluted complexity of the Middle East. I want my art to reawaken the primal connectivity that offers commonality to us all and to open other's thoughts to the foundational origins that all art springs from. I believe in a beauty that reflects pure, unadulterated, vision, untarnished by consumerism, superficial academic art criticism -- this can open up new thoughts and perceptions about what we are, where we are going and what we want our societies to be. At the foundation of my artistic expression is a continuing exploration of "duality" as found in nature, behaviorism, sexuality down to the basic theories of computer science and physics.

1962: BA –– Arts, University of Minnesota
1967: MFA –– Minneapolis School of Art

Exhibited: Museo d'Arte di Chianciano Terme Biennale 2011 — 3 paintings/award winner

Exhibited: "Societie Nationale Des Beaux Arts Salon 2010," 3 paintings exhibited, The Louvre Art Complex, Paris, France