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Allan McCollum

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Allan McCollum (Born 1944) is active/lives in New York, California.  Allan McCollum is known for Sculptor, collage, abstract painter, printmaker.

Allan McCollum is best known for his arrangements of small, solid black paintings surrounded by white matte and framed in wood. McCollums idea for this expression grew out of his interest in defining painting and reducing it to a few elements. This pursuit has allowed him to produce a consistent body of work that changes very little.

His "Surrogates" as these small framed paintings are called, represent a universal sign of painting; they remove the identifiable image or the art from the viewer. His original idea of creating only one painting to exhibit repeatedly was altered to accommodate the potential for the art piece to be bought and sold as a true art object. His early "Surrogates" varied slightly in material and frame color. His later versions, cast from molds into plaster, expand upon the idea of a mass-produced generic object.

In the first part of his career, McCollum grew through many stages of painting. He started with what he called "Bleach Paintings," "Const   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1655 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Allan McCollum

   Publications  Book References:  21
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Allan McCollum
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Shape Shifter February 2007 Princenthal, Nancy Yes
ARTnews ARTTALK October 2006 Editors Yes
Art & Antiques Artists Under the Influence August 2006 Spears, Dorothy Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews November 2004 Editors, Artforum Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions February 2001 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews January 2001 Editors, Art Forum Yes
ARTnews ARTnews October 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
21 Book References for Allan McCollum
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Moure, Nancy Dustin Publications in California Art No. 11 Index to California Art Exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1972 0 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Larsen, Lars et all Art at the Turn of the Millennium 561 Yes
1997 Rowell, Margit Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1996 Deitch, Jeffrey The Dakis Joannou Collection 302 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Flam, Jack; Donald Marron The Paine Webber Art Collection 304 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1995 Rosenthal, Mark Critiques of Pure Abstraction
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1992 Rose, Bernice Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1991 Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1984 Collins, Tricia and Richard Milazzo Natural Genre (Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University) 48 Yes
1983 Edgerton, Anne Carnegie The California Connection 16 Paintings/Gifford Phillips Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1978 California State U Long Beach Frederick Weisman Collection California Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1974 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 No
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