Books
My life, like any other, has been complicated and whole periods are lost from conscious memory, never told to anyone, not even to myself by myself. Some experiences once lived were allowed to slide off into nothingness because there seemed no reason to have had them to begin with, or to save them to revisit later. I had a sense that memory space is limited, and not a lot that passes through our consciousness is worth keeping. That may have been true, but who was I to make those judgements?
ALAN FELTUS is a figurative painter, born in 1943 in Washington, DC. He has been represented by Forum Gallery in New York City since 1976 and has lived near Assisi, in Italy since 1987. He is married to the artist Lani Irwin, also a figurative painter, and they have two sons.
His work can be found in many public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the Fralin Museum of Art, VA, the Huntington Museum of Art, WV, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, MA, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK, the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, and the Hudson River Museum, NY.
Motherself: an Artist's Memoir is Feltus' first book.
IMAGES in the book
All images in this publication are in black & white. Please visit the artist's website to see his work in color.
Alan Feltus in his studio, 2023
Photo © Tobias Feltus
Film Production
Documentary
Vicarious Pictures is currently in production on a documentary directed by Elizabeth Krause.
Animation
Vicarious Pictures is currently in production on a stop-motion animated film by Joseph Feltus.