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Artist Creates Households in the Sky in Drippy Vibrant Works

Painter Ricky Allman envisions architecturally-sound superstructures set in a rose-colored future.

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Dec 28, 2016 at 8:15pm PST

Airy terrains shadowed by strains of pink and indigo frame an urbanscape populated with light-weight architecture. Ricky Allman employs his own ménage of color, line, and form to culminate a city, drawing the viewer to take in soft skies and then focus on the pocket-sized city at the heart of the pieces. Labored-over sunsets take over canvases in blown-out washes; while the same acrylic paints help to define the sharp white lines of Allman’s aerodynamic modern civilizations.

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The Provo, Utah-raised artist and professor finds joy in dreaming up other worlds. On his website, he takes a humorous tone to his personal writing, citing a giant collection of podcasts in his biographical information.

Allman’s colorful outlook is prefaced by a tempestuous relationship with the Mormon Church, of which he was a devout believer until his mid-twenties. Often his apocalyptic end-of-the-world artworks serves as reminders of his childhood Sunday school teachings. Allman currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri and teaches art at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.

Take a look at few of Ricky Allman’s works below:

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See more of Ricky Allman’s paintings on his Instagram, and his website, here.

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