Portfolio of five prints
Alan Glass Canadian
Publisher Pilar de Bordes Mexican
Printer Germán Calzada
Not on view
Alan Glass was a Surrealist sculptor, draftsman, painter and printmaker living in Mexico. In his graphic work, an alternate universe emerges as if glimpsed through the sinuous strands of a momentarily posed cigarette. Glass’s imagery conjures the eternal and the fleeting. Daces, animals, plants, and everyday objects can be discerned among the intertwined form. The artist encountered Surrealism while training in Paris, the movement’s epicenter, during the 1950s. The drypoints here relate stylistically to drawings that he produced in ballpoint pen since his days in Paris. These small, often ghostly, images are composed of intertwining figures, animals, and creatures some set in dreamlike landscapes.
