Short, jagged strokes, tiny loops, and quick arcs make jittery, skeletal outlines of distorted human forms.
Alan loves motion; in Move in Distance, a dancer’s five legs, kicking up in successive positions, pay homage to those futurist studies in dynamism.
Even the reclining male figure of Prostitution looks restless—the angular, attenuated limbs and their busy surfaces bring to mind one of Egon Schiele’s more anxious self-portraits.”[1] Alan was born in New York City.
[citation needed] In addition to his two and three-dimensional pieces, he creates ongoing, limited-engagement projects, such as the Living Installation, where Alan "animates his drawings by transforming spaces and performers.
Using an assortment of materials, including prints, casts, paint, and found objects, he builds living sculptures that perform beautiful and treacherous acts.