Moment (Also called 'Three Dancers')

Alan Feltus

Alan Feltus, as his title implies, captures a "moment" in time for three dancers, stopped as they rest, or perhaps caught in mid performance. The scene is a little surreal, the dancers are in three positions, one seated on a stool with her back to the viewer; another on a chair, facing left, as she holds aloft a small red ball and side-eyes the viewer; the third on a stool facing the viewer, her drapery trailing off behind her and up the wall as she stares into space. Beneath her stool is a large green ball. In a second all might change.

Alan Evan Feltus was born in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 1943, and was raised in New York City. His formal art training began in 1961 with a year of courses at the Tyler School of Fine Arts at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He then earned his BFA from Cooper Union, NY (1966), and his MFA from Yale University, CT (1968). He held his first solo exhibition at the American Academy in Rome, 1972, and has since exhibited in hundreds of solo and group shows throughout the US and in Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands. He was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, two Pollack Krasner Foundation Grants, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award from Cooper Union, and the Raymond P.R. Neilson Prize from the National Academy of Design.

In addition to his professional art career, he has taught art and lectured about art at the Dayton Institute, Ohio (1968-'70); American University, Washington, D.C. (1972-'84); and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2009-'10), where he was also the Fall semester artist-in-residence in 2006. Feltus currently lives and works in Italy.