The Life & Art of Danny Allen
Gallery Q
100 College Ave., #100
Feb 2, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Art and Life of Danny Allen is a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s life’s work.  It will be shown in partnership with for notable fine arts organizations in a simultaneous cooperative effort—Gallery Q, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Mercer Gallery, and Axom Gallery. All four galleries will exhibit different, but complementary apects of Danny Allen’s art. Daniel “Danny” Allen was a largely self-taught artist who lived in Rochester, New York. During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, Allen’s work had a profound influence on the regional cultural scene and vise versa. He was an openly gay man and was one of the first artists to address this issue in his work with such heavy prominence. Allen worked in a variety of mediums producing drawings, sketches, paintings, collages and assemblages. He dealt with the feelings of joy, guilt and pressure to conform. His confusion in how to identify is evident in his work.