Craig Alan Art
American, b. 1971
Craig Alan was born in 1971 in San Bernardino, California. Upon moving to New Orleans as a child, Alan worked as a street portrait artist, using the opportunity to practice his figure drawing, as well as earn money for school and supplies.
The creative vision came naturally to Alan and he continued to develop technically and conceptually through his own diligent studies. It was not until his sophomore year at the University of Mobile, Alabama, that Alan formally began to train in arts. His affinity for the subject was immediately apparent. He continued to concentrate in studio arts, earning an area award for academic excellence. The university’s most prestigious exhibition, “Art with a Southern Drawl,” featured 42 of Alan’s pieces, chosen from a field of more than 1,600 submissions.
A minor concentration in theater provided Alan with additional techniques in makeup and set design. This added expertise supported his exploration of mixed media constructions. His skills combine to form elaborate textures, hues and compositions in his pieces. Alan’s artwork reveals a technical sophistication as well as an elaborate imagination.
Constantly craving new ways to link contemporary expressions to traditional art, Alan hopes to travel to Europe in search of artistic artifacts as well as fresh and innovative ideas. He also intends to explore his own family roots and cultural nuances in England and Scotland. Eventually, Alan plans to earn his master’s degree in studio arts in order to teach at the college level. His biggest dream is to own and manage his own atelier. He continues to exhibit his artwork across the United States.
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Artist: Craig Alan
Red Carpet Capture by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Hush (David Bowie) by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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The Under Dog
By Craig Alan
Located in London, GB
hand embellished canvas
hand-signed and numbered by the artist
edition of 95
Craig Alan is a contemporary artist renowned for his innovative and captivating "Populus" series, where ...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Canvas
"Mini Populus: Bunny Slope" Contemporary Original Framed Mixed Media on Board
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Mini Populus: Bunny Slope" is a framed original mixed media work on board by Craig Alan, depicting figures skiing down a blue mountain. Each figure has a unique pose and shadow, add...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Mixed Media, Board
Audrey at Tiffany's by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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"Populus: Around the Corner" Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media on Board
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Populus: Around the Corner" is an original mixed media work on board with a high gloss finish by Craig Alan, depicting miniature figures mingling around large structures. The stunni...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Mixed Media, Board
"Populus: Shift in the Spectrum" Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media on Board
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Populus: Shift in the Spectrum" is an unframed original mixed media work on board by Craig Alan, depicting a crowd of figures gathered into clusters that form a spherical shape in a...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Paint, Mixed Media, Board
"Populus: New York Groove" Contemporary Mixed Media on Board Painting
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Populus: New York Groove" is a framed original mixed media on board piece by Craig Alan, depicting crowds of individual figures gathered to form a visual of the iconic Statue of Lib...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Mixed Media, Board, Paint
Allure by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in Cleveland, OH
Mixed Media on Board with Resin
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2010s Pop Art Craig Alan Art
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Acrylic, Canvas
"Mini Populus: Forever II" Contemporary Original Framed Mixed Media on Board
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Mini Populus: Forever II" is a framed original mixed media work on board by Craig Alan, depicting Audrey Hepburn dressed in iconic Breakfast at ...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Paint, Mixed Media, Board
"Populus: Southern Champagne" Contemporary Mixed Media on Board
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Populus: Southern Champagne" is a framed original mixed media on board piece by Craig Alan, depicting crowds of individual figures gathered to form the likeness of the iconic Coca-C...
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"Populus: Global Grid Delineation" Contemporary Mixed Media on Board Painting
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Populus: Global Grid Delineation" is a framed original mixed media on board piece by Craig Alan, depicting crowds of individual figures gathered to form unique shapes and a grid. E...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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High Climbing (Audrey Hepburn) by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Advantageous Glitch by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Populus: Homage to Van Gogh
By Craig Alan
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Contemporary portrait of Vincent Van Gogh. Miniature paintings in composition.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Acrylic
Populus: Marilyn–Silly Little Dress
By Craig Alan
Located in Mc Lean, VA
The popular and innovative American Neo-Pop artist Craig Alan was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1971. Although Alan was inclined to creativity and the visual arts from an early age, it was not until his family moved to New Orleans, where he truly developed a sense of artistic purpose in earnest. Alan’s first concentrated attempts at visual expression were through street portraiture, which provided him with the experience and means to purchase art supplies and further his informal artistic studies.
Craig Alan attended the University of Mobile in Alabama, where he pursed a degree in the visual arts. During his time at the university, Alan garnered academic recognition and earned awards for excellence in studio art practice. He participated in Art with a Southern Drawl, one of the university’s most popular art exhibitions, which featured forty-two of Alan’s artworks.
The artist’s specialty has been and is predominantly figurative works, with Alan seeking new and innovative modes or re-working historical modes of figural representation. He has experimented with and incorporated elements of make-up/cosmetic artistry, set design, sculpture, and traditional figure drawing in his oeuvre. And his shadowbox series, which combines seemingly contrasting and contradictory elements—dresses made of ribbons and feather; shells made of pierced-paper and sticks—and transcends the traditional two-dimensional art form.
Craig Alan has received his greatest popular acclaim from collectors for his POPULUS series. Through an intricate process of deconstruction and construction, Alan re-creates iconic images of popular figures through the working and reworking of hundreds of miniature, individuated figures viewed from an aerial or birds-eye-view. His images of celebrities, heroes, or recognizable sites, such as the U.S. Capitol or Statue of Liberty, invite close, slow viewing and scrutiny, that ultimately reveals greater thematic associations and allusions through finely rendered hand details.
Craig Alan’s variety of series of art-making—Populus, Narrative, and Motivo—reveals, through different modes of expression, the artist’s knowledge of and proficiency with the art historical figurative...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Canvas, Oil
Narrative: Bridled (Hay Horse)
By Craig Alan
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Mixed media - Real hay inside shadow box. Painted with acrylic on top surface of the plexi glass.
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Acrylic
Populus: Dame Elizabeth Taylor, “Liz”
By Craig Alan
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Contemporary portrait of Elizabeth Taylor.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Acrylic
Royal Culture by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Cocotte by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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"Populus: And Other Drugs" Contemporary Love Balloon Mixed Media On Board
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Populus: And Other Drugs" is an original, unframed mixed media work on board by Craig Alan, depicting a crowd of figures gathered beneath larger than life balloon letters that spell...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Mixed Media, Board, Paint
"Cumulation III" Abstract Circles Framed Mixed Media on Canvas Painting
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Cumulation III" is a framed mixed media on canvas painting by Craig Alan, featuring an abstract grid of concentric blue circles. This original painting expresses the artist's playfu...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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"Populus: Soul Affection" Three-Dimensional Painted Heart Sculpture with Frame
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Populus: Soul Affection III" is a framed three-dimensional mixed media work on fiberglass, depicting numerous figures in unique poses with paint dripping down the glossy surface of ...
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Pop Figures by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in Cleveland, OH
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
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Narrative Horse: Arabian (Feather Horse)
By Craig Alan
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Mixed media. Feathers in shadow box, painted with acrylic on top surface of the plexi glass.
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Mixed Media, Acrylic
Unbreakable by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in Cleveland, OH
Mixed Media on Board with Resin
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2010s Pop Art Craig Alan Art
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Acrylic, Canvas
Argo
By Craig Alan
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mixed Media
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Mixed Media
"Populus"- Pieces - Sculpture - Commission
By Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original sculpture. Two sides. Puzzle Piece.
About the Artist:
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2010s Contemporary Craig Alan Art
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Mixed Media
Forget Yourself by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in Cleveland, OH
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
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2010s Pop Art Craig Alan Art
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Canvas, Acrylic
Ole Ambassador
By Craig Alan
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
Rhapsody in Blue by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Spread your wings by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Uno de la Casa Azul by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Coy (Marylin Monroe) by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Nation of Nations by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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All you need is by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Dream Big by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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The Ogle by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Heroes amoung us by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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No. 5 by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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The Crossover by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Pulp Nation by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Environmental Change by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Super People by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Helium Hare by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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The Underdog I by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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The Underdog II by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Loves Reach by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Everyone by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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We all scream by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Quiet Gaze (Audrey Hepburn) by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Walking in time by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Rainbow Effect by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Color Gravity by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Love High by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Summer Squared by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
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Cyan Cinema (Audrey Hepburn) by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
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Craig Alan art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Craig Alan art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, red and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Craig Alan in mixed media, paint, acrylic paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Craig Alan art, so small editions measuring 24 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Ceravolo, Robert Mars, and Amy Smith. Craig Alan art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,300 and tops out at $32,500, while the average work can sell for $14,500.