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The sculptures articulate a single, closed, continuous eccentric line moving through space.

The movement, rate, and trajectory of the line are informed by a drawing that the artist makes in his studio using pendulums; these drawings are then transcribed using CAD-based software into shop drawings that are used to produce the sculpture.
Glatter’s aluminum sculptures gracefully undulate and radically warp depending on point of view. The sculptures reference the artist’s harmonograph drawings, a Victorian-era device for making automatic drawings based on musical theory. The fusion of Victorian pop-technology and slick hyper-modern materials results in a body of conceptually rigorous work.

Allen Glatter received a BFA from Pratt Institute and lives and works in Brooklyn. Current exhibitions include Smoke and Screaming Target, a site-specific installation of new work in the lobby of 125 Maiden Lane, the lower Manhattan headquarters of Time Equities Inc., as well as TALLY-HO, the first large-scale stainless steel outdoor commission by Glatter. Organized in collaboration with the Department of Transportation Public Projects, this sculpture stands eleven feet high and is installed at the corner of York St and Front St in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Glatter’s work has also been exhibited at the 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival, NY; Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA; Model Theories at fordPROJECT, NY; and the artist was the subject of the one-person exhibition Trots and Bonnie at Rawson Projects, NY.