June Allen Contemporary Art Drawings, Paintings, Objects

Pigment and Oil Medium on Canvas,
40 x 40 cm; Done just after the video "Two Apples"

Paper, graphite, tracing paper, glass. As part of a protocol, a fellow artist and I exchanged suggested 'assignments' a few times. This one was to work from Rimbaud's poem, 'Les Voyelles' (Vowels).

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Recent etchings, objects, paintings (small selection)

40 x 40 cm

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Circles, late 90s

Exploring the form and symbolism of the circle, occasionally within the square. Followed by theoretical research about the circle in contemporary art.

Click to see full image, Pigment, charcoal, medium.

Oil on Canvis Removed from Frame,
50 x 50 cm, Circlish shape, horizontal and vertical. It seems Easter-like, but in fact, I was exploring horizontal and vertical lines, which indeed make a cross. I never had a thoughts or feelings about Christianity around any of my work. Admittedly, I was unconsciously influenced by the society I grew up in. In protestant churches, there were no human representations, only an empty cross, flowers, cloths and the altar.

60 x 60 cm, In cellar studio for a short time, trading light for privacy. It was too dark and closed in, but a few works came out of it, including this picture of an industrial pail.

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Early Paintings, Drawings, Etchings

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The ordinary, 2008

Daily drawing during or just after 2 weeks spent in silence in Devon, England.

Pigment powder and medium on wooden diptych, 1m80 x 1m20

Pigment powder and medium on wooden diptych, 1m80 x 1m20 each

Pigment powder, acrylic medium, on wooden diptychs.

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Five Senses 2000 Installation Created for Chapel in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Pigment powder, Acrylic, on Wooden Diptych. How two people meet through the five senses. Framed by expressions about the senses: an English and a French layer. The colors and forms respond to the unusual and sensitive exhibit space, which was soon to become desacralized.

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Little Stitchings

(Petites Coutures) late 90s, from recuperated material: discarded cardboard disks and unused fabric, recuperated at night in the Sentier sewing district in Paris.

Pigment on canvas, 1m80 x 90 cm

Pigment on canvas, 90 cm x 1m80

Pigment on canvas, 1m x 1m20

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Large Formats, 1990s

Pigment powder on canvas, fixative. Working

with gesture, eyes, hands and body movement in response to large format. Distributing pure colored powder on drum-like canvas.

I Misplaced the Key, monotype, 2015

Apple, 2012

After 'Les Voyelles', 2015

Recent etchings, objects, paintings (small selection)

Oil, pigment on wood, 30 cm x 30 cm

Oil and pigment on sculpted wood

Pigment, sand, medium on wood, 10 cm

Circles, late 90s

Exploring the form and symbolism of the circle, occasionally within the square. Followed by theoretical research about the circle in contemporary art.

Rising Things, 120 cm x 60 cm

Easter Egg

Pail, Layers of Rag Paper, India Ink

Early Paintings, Drawings, Etchings

Mug, ink on paper, 2008,10 x12 cm

Airport,ink on paper, 2008,10 x12 cm

Cushin, ink on paper, 2008,10 x12 cm

The ordinary, 2008

Sound

Sound and Touch

Installation, Each work: 1m20 x 1m80

Fountain

Fire door

Tourbillons

Fire door