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I met the artist Alan Steele at PULSE NY a number of years ago. We began chatting about Richard Serra and the Diptych by artist Brian Dupont in homage to Richard Serra’s Verb list. Alan is a New York based artist who was born in Venezuela and grew up in Brazil. He attended the SVA in NYC for his BFA and received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Alan quietly admired the work in our booth and invited me to visit his studio. Several months went by until I was able to visit and I was completely delighted and surprised the moment I entered his loft. Alan had beautifully curated his apartment with paintings that were very large in scale and quite sculptural and very small works on paper as well. He is an extremely modest man and very generous to his fellow artists whose work he had also hung. Alan works so elegantly and methodically and comes out of a tradition of Minimalism that is apparent in the elegant drawing “Gateless Barrier 2.”

In Gateless Barrier, Alan has created an elaborate and mathematical system that while quite complex is completely entrancing and soothing. The eye and mind can enter the drawing at any point and be taken on a journey of perfectly drawn lines, into labyrinths of minimal color and exquisite draftsmanship. This elegance of line is evident in all of Alan’s small scale works and many of the larger works on museum board. They are each so unique and contain a beautiful infiniteness and intelligence.