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Temescal Flows Mural<\/p><\/div>\n

Alan Leon – Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

510 628 0801<\/a>
1109 Oak Street., Apt 510
Oakland, CA 94607<\/p>\n

www.alanleon.org<\/a>
alangoat2002@yahoo.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

My education has been two-directional \u2014 fine arts training and environmental\/architectural training. I have developed a passion for graphic research and pictorial thinking with an emphasis on linking two-dimensional and three-dimensional design.My education has been two-directional \u2014 fine arts training and environmental\/architectural training. I have developed a passion for graphic research and pictorial thinking with an emphasis on linking two-dimensional and three-dimensional design.<\/p>\n

In 1976, <\/em>while living in Tobago, West Indies, I completed a 200-page independent study project on the coastal zone entitled “The Phenomenon of Place; Water and Land Interface.” As an Artist-in- Residence at the Madewood Arts Foundation and St. Philomenia School, Labadieville, Louisiana, I directed a large scale, figurative mural involving some 70 children.<\/p>\n

 I have been a registered landscape architect in New York State since 1980. I was a winner of the NYC Town Hall Young Artist Award in 1962, and a Special Merit Award winner at the 7th Annual New Orleans International Art Exhibit in 1977. <\/em>I was a semi finalist in the American Artist Competition of 1978, and a finalist in the NYC Subways Improvement Competition sponsored by the Cooper Union in 1979. I won Best of Show, 2nd Place , at the 1994 Festival at the Lake in Oakland CA .<\/p>\n

\"Watercolor\"<\/p>\n

I have had over 18 years experience in land\u00ad scape architectural offices throughout the USA, involving master planning through detail design. In 1980, I was an associate at Vreeland & Guerriero Landscape Architects, NYC. In 1988, I was project director for RIVERBANK, a 28-acre, urban rooftop state park on the Hudson River.<\/p>\n

 I was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in New Hampshire in 1981, and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 1992. I have taught Landscape Design at Rutgers University for the 1985 school year, as well as Landscape Theory at the New York Botanical Garden. I also presented workshops on “Reading the Landscape” for the Institute for Social Ecology in 1985.<\/p>\n

During a 1983 Fulbright Award for the study of landscape in Southeast Asia, I completed 150 paintings, and a manuscript entitled “Landscape Spaces; a Guide to Reading the Landscape.” In 1988, I presented a paper on the topic of edges <\/em>at the International Federation of Landscape Architects’ 25th Congress. I live and breathe drawing as a tool for environmental discovery, knowing, projection, and transformation.<\/p>\n

I have done solo large scale installations at Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, Crocker Galleria in San Francisco, and for the Pier C show in Hoboken.<\/p>\n

My practice from 1991 to present has included mural, object, architectural, and site design. I completed a Landscape Master Plan for the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 1993. My award-winning wood and stone inlay mezuzahs <\/em>(small, doorpost prayer-holding sculptures) have been exhibited in galleries, museum shops, and craft fairs.<\/p>\n

 My murals can be seen at Footwork Dance Studio in San Francisco, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, and numerous San Francisco retail businesses<\/p>\n

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AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Finalist, Communication Workers of America Mural Competition,Oakland , 1997<\/p>\n

* Finalist, Eastlake Street Banners Competition, Oakland, 1997 *Finalist, L’Arte della Strada (Pastelon sidewalk mural), San Francisco, 1997 *Spertus Judaica Prize, 3rd Prize, African Yam Boat Seder Plate, Spertus Museum, Chicago, 1996 * Oakland Festival at the Lake, Best of Show, Mezuzot, 2nd Prize, 1994<\/p>\n

* Mama’s Royal Cafe Napkin Art Contest, Oakland, 1994, 1995, 1996<\/p>\n

* San Francisco Bay Guardian Cartoon Contest, San Francisco, 1991<\/p>\n

* Fulbright Scholar Award, Philippines, 1982-1983<\/p>\n

* Finalist, American Artist Magazine Painting Award, 1980<\/p>\n

* Skowhegan Scholarship Award (by Coopers & Lybrand), Maine, 1980<\/p>\n

* Finalist, NYC Subways Improvement Competition at the Cooper Union, NYC, 1979<\/p>\n

* Special Merit Award, 7th Annual New Orleans International Art Show, 1977 * NYC Town Hall Young Artist Award, 1962<\/p>\n

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RESIDENCIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Omega Institute, Artist-in-Residence, Rhinebeck, NY, 1997 – 2013<\/p>\n

* Camp Tawonga, Resident Artist, Groveland, CA, 1993, 1994, 1998<\/p>\n

* Kalani Hanoua, Arts and Culture Center, Puna, Hawaii, 1996<\/p>\n

* Camp Newman, Art Director, Santa Rosa, CA, 1997<\/p>\n

* Camp Swig, Art Director, Saratoga, CA, 1993-1996<\/p>\n

* American Academy in Rome, Italy, 1992<\/p>\n

* MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1981 R’Madewood Plantation & St. Philomena School, Artist-in-Residence, Bayou LaFouche, Lousiana, 1978<\/p>\n

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PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Realm Between Realms, Histories Between History, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington DC, 1997<\/p>\n

* The Seder Plate, Spertus Press, Chicago, 1996<\/p>\n

* Light Interpretations, a Hanukah Menorah Invitational, The Jewish Museum of San Francisco, 1995 *International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress Proceedings, Apprehending Your World Through Edges, Boston, MA, 1988<\/p>\n

* Quonset Huts on the River Styx, Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility sponsored Bombshelter Design Book, North Atlantic Books, NY, 1987<\/p>\n

* American Artist Magazine, Travel Tips from the Pros, March, 1985<\/p>\n

* Landscape Spaces: A Guide to Reading the Landscape, self-published, 1984<\/p>\n

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EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

* San Francisco City College, 1993<\/p>\n

* Urban Permaculture Design Intensive, NY, 1985<\/p>\n

* Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, 1980<\/p>\n

* Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, NY, 1979-1980<\/p>\n

* Pratt Institute, study with Roman Vishniac, NY, 1979<\/p>\n

* Drawing and Painting Research, Tobago, West Indies, 1976<\/p>\n

* College of Environmental Science & Forestry, BLA, Syracuse NY, 1976<\/p>\n

* City College of NY, 1971-1973<\/p>\n

* Bronx High School of Science, NY, 1968-1971<\/p>\n

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TEACHING<\/strong><\/p>\n

* George Maynes Elementary School, Alviso CA, 1998<\/p>\n

* Eastlake Banner Design Workshop, Teenagers, Oakland, 1998<\/p>\n

* Peralta Street Community Garden Mural Workshop, Berkeley, 1998<\/p>\n

* Museum of Children’s Art, Oakland, 1997<\/p>\n

* Studio One Art Center, Creativity Explosion, Oakland, 1997<\/p>\n

* Bay Area Discovery Museum, Skyframes Installation, Sausalito CA, 1992<\/p>\n

* Goddard Riverside Environmental Education Program, Rifton NY, 1990<\/p>\n

* Institute for Social Ecology, NY, 1986 \u2022The Hudson School, Hoboken NJ, 1985<\/p>\n

* The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx NY, 1985<\/p>\n

* Rutgers University, Cook College, School of Landscape Architecture, NJ, 1981 and 1985<\/p>\n

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PERFORMANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Producer, The Hungry Hobo (one man show about the young Jack London ), Oakland Museum, 1998<\/p>\n

* Street Percussion Workshop, CELL (Collective Exploration Learning Laboratories), SF, 1998<\/p>\n

* Gamelan Sekar Jaya Workshop (Indonesian Orchestra), El Cerrito CA, 1996-1997 \u2022Foga na Roupa (Clothes on Fire), Brazilian Dance Bloco, SF Carnival & Oakland Carijama, 1995<\/p>\n

* “Articulate Architecture, Space & Behavior,” participant (with Fiona Templeton), Capp Street Project, SF, 1992<\/p>\n

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Syracuse Structures, watercolors, Lincoln Bank, Syracuse,N.Y., 1975<\/p>\n

* The Phenomenen of Place, Festival of Places, 200 drawings of Tobago, 1976<\/p>\n

* “Highland, Lowland: A Watercolor Journal of the Philippine Landscape, International Center, Manilla, Philippines, 1983<\/p>\n