Alan David Loehle (born 1954) is an American contemporary artist and professor of art at

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Education and career

Born in

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, Loehle received his B.F.A. from the

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in 1975 and his M.F.A. from the

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in 1979. He began exhibiting his paintings in Atlanta and

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in 1983, and his work was featured in a 1999 print exhibition in ''

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''. He has been teaching at Oglethorpe since 2001, and received a

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for Painting in 2007.

Paintings

Loehle's work, which includes both paintings and drawings, is characterized by its ambiguity and disturbing images. A 2004 ''

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'' article stated that his paintings are characterized by a "triumvirate of flesh: dogs, dwarfs and meat", describing his paintings as "...masterful ruminations on the slender cord separating life from death and humanity from debasement." His specific works include a series of three

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s and one small ink-and-brush work, which he produced from 1997 to 2002 as part of a series centered around an

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model. These works include ''Walking Man'', depicting an anonymous man walking on a desolate background landscape, and ''the Head'', depicting the same model standing over a severed pig head. He has said that the images in these paintings are meant to symbolize the human condition.

References

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Faculty page
1954 births Living people Oglethorpe University faculty Painters from Chicago University of Georgia alumni University of Arizona alumni American contemporary painters {{US-painter-1990s-stub