Alan Leitner

Background

He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Los Angeles

Career

Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. Also in 1971, he acquired an art foundry that produced blown glass, sculpture, ceramics and paintings, which contributed greatly to his understanding of art In 1987, he received a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

The graduate program required students to do some teaching, and through this teaching he met Alyn Brownley who at the time headed the art program at Leeward Community College.

Brownley requested Alan to teach her art class for one semester while she pursued a move to University of Hawaii at Manoa. Alan has also taught at Honolulu Community College and University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Leitner"s art is abstract, utilizing muted earth tones as the main colors. He often affixes various objects to his canvases.

Untitled #4, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of his later work.

Connections

associate:

John Conner