My name is David Allen, I am 70 years old and I've been painting since the age of sixteen. I have ventured as far as the Peter Barlow Gallery in Chicago and the Denise Debroe Gallery in Manhattan. I have paintings in the South Bend Museum of Art permanent collection as well as the Mid-West Museum of American Art in Elkhart. I am known for local city and neighborhood scenes. I work outside, on location, in real time summer and winter. I also paint non-representational work in my studio. I do not have an academic degree but I have enjoyed a lifelong mentor-ship under Harold Zisla, Professor Emeritus, IUSB. His critiques and thoughtfulness account for any knowledge of art I enjoy beyond the merely naive.
-photographs courtesy of William Healy and Brian Nolan
