Damned Hard Work
Essays on art history, inspiration and exhibition news from the studio of Michael Allen
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Rekindled (opens the original)
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Happy Autumn to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere. August went by in a blip and September is seemingly on track to do the same. At the end of July, Presence came to a close, and with it my weekly visits with friends and family to see the exhibition. August began by collecting the work from the museum and beginning to figure out the logistics of the next exhibition. For all the planning and studies I was working on throughout the summer, I came to a month when I could finally get to some painti
Studio in Full Swing (opens the original)
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