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Dennis Alter
Wall of Sound: contemporary abstract oil painting w/ blue green gold & red lines

2011

About the Item

Dennis Alter's layered and textured oil on canvas paintings are rich with painterly activity. Gestural brushwork, heavy impasto, and layers upon layers of color lend a complexity to each work that invites multiple approaches to viewing. Alter's experimental use of painting tools and techniques -- scraping, carving, impressing -- play an important role in the process of discovery. He describes his process creating "Wall of Sound:" "Dragging a flat edge across a still-wet painted surface creates the potential for a new entity, a new life. The surface of the paint in invaded, dispossessed, and transformed by the act of sweeping across the colors and volume; destroying things, but creating a heightened synthesis of them." - Dennis Alter "Wall of Sound" is a contemporary abstract oil painting with predominant colors of blue, green, yellow, and red. It is signed and dated on the back. Alter is an award-winning artist who has exhibited his work at Perkins Center for the Arts in Collingswood, NJ; Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA; and Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA. His paintings can be found in permanent collections of Woodmere Art Museum, the Fox School of Business, the Gittis Student Center, and the Charles Library at Temple University. They can also be found in numerous private collections.
  • Creator:
    Dennis Alter (1943, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2011
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU141626811212
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