| Allan
D'Arcangelo (1930-1998)
Allan D'Arcangelo was born in Buffalo,
New York. He earned a degree in history from the University
of Buffalo and then moved to Mexico City where he studied art
and, in 1958, had his first one-man show. His style, loosely
termed "hard edge" or constructivist art, is based
on spatial relationships. A keen sense of perception, complemented
by expert use of color tones and shadows, points up these relationships
in forceful compositions. It has been said that D'Arcangelo
"has the ability to defy, yet document, spatial relationships
at the same time." The recipient of fifteen awards and
commissions, D 'Arcangelo has had frequent one-man shows, many
of which traveled to prominent museums throughout America. His
work appears in more than thirty public collections, including
those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and
the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Detroit Institute of Art,
and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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