FINE ART
Artist Bio
Alan Rubin
Artist Statement
"I love to create art that makes the viewer look at life from many camera angles, from many viewpoints, from our collective memory and from the surreal subconscious. I would like the viewer to notice the moments that are normally fleeting and often funny, and feel their connection to the unknown moments before and after."
Biography
Alan Rubin became a professional artist late in life after a long career as owner-operator of The Biograph Theatre in Washington, D.C. The theatre became a cinema landmark showing independent and classic films for three decades.
His artwork was described in two articles in the Washington Post as:
“Bold illustrated scenes resembling nothing so much as frames from imaginary movies that look simultaneously familiar and
foreign”…“His paintings often have the look of suspended animation, like frames pulled from a movie reel. His people are full of tension, caught between one highly charged moment and the next”…“The characters that inhabit his paintings seem to have secrets and hidden stories lurking just below the surface.”
Though he painted intermittently over the years he is now a full time, award-winning, accomplished artist at he height of his skills. He studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and has been mentored by his friend, art professor, William Woodward.
He now paints full time in his Delaplane, Virginia studio.
Web site: Alanrubin.com
