Allan Gorman

Born: Brooklyn, NY 1947 I started painting in the 1980's and took a hiatus for more than 20 years and picked up the brushes again in 2007. Stated showing again in 2009.

The art I make explores the patterns, textures, and aesthetic tensions I see in manufactured objects – particularly within the confines of machinery and structures.

When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, my neighborhood was near the elevated trains and I was especially attracted to the mystery and magic of the subways, city streets and exciting architecture of NYC. I was drawn to the art made by the ashcan school and precisionist artists and photographers of the earlier part of the 20th Century. And, although my style is a bit more contemporary, I think their influence is more and more evident in what I do today.

I use my camera as my sketchbook, always looking for subject matter that intrigues me and makes a memorable impression. Then when transforming my reference into a piece of physical art, I make it my purpose to go beyond just a technical rendering, but also to infuse it with feeling, and I’m not happy until the art becomes an emotional experience for me, and hopefully the viewer.

I think that’s what makes it art.

Self-Taught for the most part.
Courses at SVA (NYC) in 1980s
Classes w/Gary Godbee at Montclair Art Museum
Summer Workshops w/David Kapp
Residencies at Vermont Studio Center and ESKFF at Mana Contemporary
Recipient of 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship for Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Also won the award in 2013)

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2020
Summer Reflections - Beacon Art-Shortwave Gallery - Stone Harbor, NJ

2019
Structures and Seduction -
JCAST 2019 Solo Exhibit - Jersey City, NJ
Motorworks in Midtown -
Manhattan Athletic Club - New York City
Men of Steel (with Jan Anders Nelson) -
Nicole Longnecker Fine Art - Houston, TX
Spaces: Real and Imagined (with Linda Streicher) - ChaSaMa Exhibit Space - Matawan, NJ

2018
Light Peeking Through - Gallery @ 350 Bleecker - NYC
Seduced by Steel, Concrete & Glass - The Yard: City Hall Park - NYC
Automotive Abstractions - JacksoNewark Gallery - Hoboken, NJ

2017
Allan Gorman at the Atrium - Morris Arts’ Atrium Gallery - Morristown, NJ

2015
Surfaces, Shapes and Spaces - McGraw Gallery @ Newark Academy - Livingston, NJ

2014
Allan Gorman’s “Ready to Rumble Road Show” -- A series of “pop-up” exhibits at Harley Davidson dealers in NY, NJ and PA from May - November
Magic in the Machines - Rotunda Art Gallery, J&J World Headquarters, New Brunswick NJ
Revved Up and Ready to Rumble - Azarian MCCullough Art Gallery at St Thomas Aquinas, Sparkill NY

2013
Geometries & Reflections - Holy Family University, Philadelphia PA
Motivated by Machinery - Hillside Sq...