ALAN MAGEE: Witness
ALAN MAGEE: Witness
“I find that I am haunted by things that I know about in life, not that I seek them out. I'm not a real
activist and I think any genuine activist would be able to see that. I am an artist, but on the other hand I think
life comes right through your walls, right into where you are living and working, and particularly today, it takes a
real effort to remain innocent.”
-Alan Magee
"Although they are works of armor, although they are works of weaponry, there's a kind of vulnerability because we can't see the person within, there's just a blackness there."
-Eleanor Heartney, Art Scholar and Author
Helmet VI [detail], 2019, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 50 inches
"Inside of that stillness, this instrument of war, is this kind of being who is pleading to us, is haunted by the traumas and the horrors that it, he or she, has witnessed."
-Eleanor Heartney, Art Scholar and Author
Alan Magee
Barrack Twenty-Five, 2020
monotype with watercolor and black pencil
24 x 18 inches
$19,000
Alan Magee
Yo Lo Vi (to Goya), 2019
monotype with watercolor and black pencil
14 x 11 inches
$16,000.
Alan Magee
Indictment, 2020
monotype with watercolor and black pencil
14 x 11 inches
$16,000.
Alan Magee
The Colonies, 2011
monotype with watercolor and black pencil
14 x 11 inches
$16,000.
"These two bodies of work were done at different times, but they work together in a remarkable way. They really speak to each other… Both of them seem to talk about the very difficult kind of world that we found ourselves in right now."
-Eleanor Heartney, Art Scholar and Author
Images from left:
Helmet V, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 50 inches
Yo Lo Vi (to Goya), 2019, monotype with watercolor and black pencil, 14 x 11 inches
"Both series of works are in many ways works of mourning. They are about a moment in our life and in our time where there is great sadness."
-Eleanor Heartney, Art Scholar and Author
