For Immediate Release:

Totemic Whammy
Pictures by Alan Prazniak

“He led me in among the secret things.
There sighs, complaints, and ululations loud
Resounded through the air without a star,
Whence I, at the beginning, wept thereart.
Languages diverse, horrible dialects,
Accents of anger, words of agony,
And voices high and hoarse, with sound of hands,
Made up a tumult that goes whirling on
Forever in that air forever black,
Even as the sand doth, when the whirlwind breathes.”
-Dante Alighieri

Through paint and charcoal Alan Prazniak summons an instinctual ferocity with the use of just black and white. He makes visible the innate energy of anxiety and fear; the fanatic movement of arms and legs is barely contained in his canvases. He hovers slightly above the dust cloud of a fight. Alan’s first ever solo show presents the discomfort of encountering something very aggressive that simultaneously remains so elegant.

I would be pleased if you will join us for our show.

Dustin Metz
Curator