Allen Coombs: work

Family Portraits Family Portraits Atalanta races. Quietus by two thirds. Atalanta races. Quietus by two thirds. Self Portrait By Self Portrait By Hobbled from the start. Nothing to be done. Onward! Hobbled from the start. Nothing to be done. Onward! Poems Poems Locomotions Locomotions Other Drawings Other Drawings Why they came no one knew. Why they stayed even less so. Why they came no one knew. Why they stayed even less so. A pointless abstraction. A pointless abstraction.

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I work with rule-based systems, generative processes, machines, found objects, and traditional materials to create pieces that aren’t entirely under my control.

Much of my work unfolds in series, allowing variations to surface through accumulated action. I’m interested in the difference in repetition — in deviations that are intentional, and those that aren’t.