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Michael Allen on Art Watch Radio
June 30, 2021
Painter Michael Allen speaks with Director of Somerville Manning Gallery, Rebecca Moore.
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Michael Allen is an American painter focusing primarily on the landscape and the relationships within. His depictions of fleeting moments are a composite of multiple experiences from familiar settings. Derived from a combination of memory, invention, and direct observation, his works seek to present a natural world with a human presence.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Michael Allen: A Part of the Silence, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2015 Millbach Sunrise, Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
2015 Drawings 2008-2015, Art Space Gallery, Lancaster, PA
2012 Notes, Thoughts, and Other Works on Paper, Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
2011 Evening Light, Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
2006 Michael Allen, Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Michael Allen: At Home, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
2001 Recent Paintings and Drawings, YorkArts, York, PA
1999 Michael Allen: Landscapes, The Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Structure and Space, Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
2019 Plein Air Paintings and Drawings, Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
2016 Upstream and Down: The Susquehanna, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes Barre, PA
2016 LVC Reimagined: Transformative Architecture, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
2015 Exhibition 280, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
2015 Art of the State 2015, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2014 Inspired Landscape, Oxford Arts Alliance, Oxford, PA
2013 The Susquehanna: River and Inspiration, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2012 New Summer Art, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2006 – 08 Visions of the Susquehanna: 250 Years of Paintings by American Masters
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Governor’s Residence, Harrisburg, PA
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
York College, York, PA
Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY
2005 USArtists, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2005 State of The Art: A Mid-Atlantic Overview, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2005 Connecting Our Faculties, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Rooftops and Steeples, The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA
2004 Members Juried Exhibit, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2003 Transforming the Commonplace: Masters of Contemporary Realism, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2001 Trains, Planes, and Art on the Move, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2000 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2000, State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1998 Midyear Show, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1997 The Rural Landscape at Risk, YorkArts Gallery, York, PA
Awards and Honors
2004 Director’s Award, “Member’s Juried Exhibit”, DCCA, Wilmington, DE
2003 – 04 Competitive Fellowship, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2003 Fourth Place Award, 32nd Annual Spring Juried Show, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
2003 Honorable Mention, 26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
2002 – 03 Graduate Assistantship, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1999 Best of Show, “Riverwalk Fine Art Juried Exhibition”
1998 Honorable Mention, Painting ’98
1996 Jurors Merit, Berks Art Alliance 19th Regional Juried Exhibit
Selected Public Collections
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, PA
Thomas A and Georgina T Russo Foundation, Lancaster, PA
Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, PA
Visions of the Susquehanna Collection, Susquehanna Heritage Corporation, Wrightsville, PA
Lebanon County Library System, Palmyra Public Library, Palmyra, PA
Wiedenhammer, Wyomissing, PA
Selected Private Collections
Governor Tom Wolf and First Lady Francis Wolf, York, PA
Education
2004 MFA, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1996 BFA, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
