Thomas allen

Photographer Thomas Allen's quirky artworks appropriate cut-outs from vintage pulp art advertisements. Allen often stages multiple situations to create complementary contexts. He carefully titles each photograph to create cheeky double entendres. Allen's technique of blurring certain figures in order to draw focus to others instructs and entertains the viewer both visually and mentally.Thomas Allen was born in Michigan and lives and works there today. He is represented in New York an...

I started borrowing books from a roving Quaker City bookmobile when I was 7 years old. Things quickly got out of hand. Before I knew it I was borrowing every book about the Romans, every book about the Apaches, every book about the spindly third-string quarterback who comes off the bench in the fourth quarter to bail out his team. I had no way of knowing it at the time, but what started out as a harmless juvenile pastime soon turned into a lifelong personality disorder. GREAT ARTICLE CLICK…

Pulp fiction cover art is fabulous enough in its own right, but Thomas Allen takes it to new heights with his weird but hilarious pop-up cover art.

BACKSTOP, 2010

American artist Thomas Allen has tapped into one of his culture's most striking vintage paper icons - pulp fiction. It's an arresting subject matter that he has recreated into the more dramatic form of a 3D sculpture. He cuts out the two-dimensional figures of pulp fiction book covers and refashions them into a graphic depiction of the action within.

Available for sale from Panopticon Gallery, Thomas Allen, Epilogue (2009), C-print, 24 × 20 in

Official site artist and photo illustrator Thomas Allen

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Book Art. By Thomas Allen.

Thomas Allen

A pop up book

It’s always fun working with Dance Gazette – official magazine of the Royal Academy of Dance (London). This time I was asked to conceptualize the process a choreographer must go through to teach his/her moves to a dancer.

FOLEY brings together fine line and obsessive precision in the disciplines of drawing, cut paper, painting, and photography. Michael Foley opened Foley Gallery in the fall of 2004 after several years of working with notable photography galleries including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery, and Yancey Richardson Gallery. He is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography.

I'm an engineer so this one tugged at my heartstrings. #ArtspaceFaves

Thomas Allen_Cut-outs of vintage books

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