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Born: 1936 Nairobi, Kenya
Lives and works in Humboldt County, California
Jesse Allen has been a highly visible staple of the Bay Area art community for over forty years and continues to expand the breadth of his work. Jesse’s richly detailed techniques create a visual maze to follow through the entire work, weaving a spiritual portrait of a place. Allen’s personal mythologies denote symbolism to each individual plant, creature, and earth form in his pieces, creating complex visual narratives.
Allen takes most of his imagery from the landscape of Kenya, where he was born and lived until his late teens. He received a degree in modern languages from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, England. Allen cites the two years following his graduation, spent living in Milan, as fundamental to his development as a painter. An entirely self-taught artist, Allen moved to the United States to teach, and eventually left his post as a language professor at Stanford University to pursue painting full-time.
Selected Exhibitions
2008 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Brentwood City Hall Gallery, Brentwood, CA
2006 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Laney College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1985 Minsukishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991 The International Triennial Competition of Print, Osaka, Japan
1978 Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
1977 Gibson Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY
1977 Museum of North Orange County, Fullerton, CA
1976 Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
1975 Lawrence Hall of Science, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1975 Art Gallery, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY
1975 Museum of Art, Universtiy of Wymoming, Laramie, WY
1975 George Amos Memorial Library, Gillette, WY
1974 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1974 Carnegie Public Library, Fine Arts Center, Rock Springs, Wyoming
1974 Universtiy of Colorado Gallery, Boulder, CO
1974 Museum Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1974 Bernard Levinson & Associates, San Francisco, CA
1973 Hastings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Bauhaus II, Greene Farms, CT
1972 Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1971 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1970 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1969 Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1969 The Northern Arizona University Art Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ
1968 University of San Francisco, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
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