The Art and Life of Danny Allen. Sunny Ducks and Other Musings.
AXOM Home & Gallery
661 South Ave.
Apr 6, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

AXOM Gallery has been part of the 4 Gallery collaborative Exhibition of the Life and Work of Danny Allen. Entitled “Sunny Ducks and Other Musings”.The exhibit at AXOM Gallery features a painting, “Sunny Ducks”, which is on loan to AXOM from The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. The exhibit will also include the collage study from which the painting was created along with another painting “MANDRIL”, and its collage study. These pieces give insight into how the artist worked in creating his meticulous surrealist miniature paintings. Other works in the exhibit include a number of collages that were never realized as paintings, due to his short life, as well as a considerable number of drawings, sketches and works on paper, that exemplify his thoughts and feelings as he struggled to identify as an openly gay young man in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. His work expresses his joy, his guilt, and his confusion, as he tried to reconcile his existence as a gay man struggling with his own spirituality as he tried to find his place in a conventional religion.