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Alan Soffer
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Alan Soffer began sculpting in 1973 and had transitioned to painting by 1985, through a breakthrough program at Bennington College. Teaching abstract painting workshops and curatorial engagements ensued around 2000. Encaustics allowed him to marry a sculptural component to his painterly approach while studying at Ringling School in 1998. The hot, pigmented wax’s inherent translucency perfectly supports his vocabulary for expressing space from the microscopic to the galactic. Whatever the direction, the work is always influenced by Joseph Campbell, the noted mythologist, who Soffer considers his mentor.
Soffer is in numerous major collections, including The National Museum of American Jewish History; Musee du Chateau, Montbeliard; American Express; Larry & Roberta Ballen; Saul & Lori Krenzel; R & R Seidenberg.
Exhibitions have traveled throughout the US, Argentina, Cuba, Kurdistan, and France. Significant exhibitions have been at Musee du Chateau, Montbeliard, France; Gallery Sakiko-NY, Haydon Art Center, NE, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia; Widener University, PA; State College-PA; Art Museum of the Americas-DC; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia; Hoyt Institute, Pa; Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia; Penna. Academy of Fine Arts, Parallels Gallery, Philadelphia; State Museum of Penna, Harrisburg,PA.; Atlantic City AC; Robert Roman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Rosenfeld Gallery,Phila,PA,
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VICTORIA DONOHUE / PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER [2003, Widener University] had this to say:
“Soffer is a serious artist with a truly poetic gift for making his paintings coalesce into visions of quite remarkable beauty. He is a colorist and very versatile in this; he uses color exuberantly and paints seemingly with abandon, yet his results are nonetheless strongly rhythmic. Such paintings project an engaging physicality, even though they rely on swift effects to declare their presence.”
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