Released in August 2013, The New Machine featured new paintings and works in mixed media inspired by the landscape and industrial detritus of the American West. A continuation of Allen's exploration of the concept of "PLACE", (see The Gravity of Place, 2009) The New Machine examines our romanticized, cultural fascination with the West: the heritage of Manifest Destiny and the rule of the gun, our love of gold, and the pursuit of wealth and the American Dream. Through this series of hauntingly beautiful images, the artist poses questions concerning the potential consequences of our way of life and the world we leave behind.

Resisting Entropy is an exercise in creating collaboratively within a condensed timeframe and shared space. 10 artists | 24 hours

FEATURING: David Allen, Johanna Cairns, Jared Cowan, Bethany Engstrom, Andy Hamm, Siglinde Langholz, Jonathan Laurence, Eric Leppanen, Trelawney O’Brien, and Andy White  Time-lapse video in the sidebar >

24 hours, 8 Artists, a pile of junk. An all-night art extravaganza with opportunities for collaboration and disaster. Watch the documentation video in the sidebar >

The Gravity of Place is an series of work that revolves around themes of HOME, WORK, and PLACE. These themes were played out against a backdrop of the local history of the area in which I live, and the history of work and labor in Maine; recounting the shift from an agricultural-based economy to an industrial one, to that of present day.

more to come...this page will feature works that I consider to be experimental, or the first of what will be a body of work with a similar themes and/or techniques.

Anybody got a job for me...I love mural work :)

A point between two principle stations...the past and the future. This outbuilding became an art installation.

I started out as a painter and a sculptor...I ended up the ringmaster of the only chicken circus in town. Watch the documentation video in the sidebar >

Living in a renovated department store on Bangor's Main Street inspired these works.

Some crazy art stuff in the old Ayers mill complex in Orono, Maine