Allan Graham

Allan Graham, known also as Toadhouse, (born 1943 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary American artist based in New Mexico.

[1] His early paintings were wall-like grids which, in the mid to late 1970s, developed into more open compositions with sweeping arcs and herring-bone patterns.

In 1990 his work began to appear under the pseudonym of Toadhouse, which came from an underground structure he and his son built in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which attracted toads.

[5] A large installation piece titled Time is Memory, which appeared in SITE Santa Fe, included sixteen zafus in front of which were placed famous Buddhist death poems.

The latter was also part of a video, poetry, photo installation project called “Add-Verse” which he did in conjunction with artist Gloria Graham, his spouse.