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American Abstract Artist Painter
& Mural Artist

Abstract art like you have never seen before

"What I really enjoy about being an abstract artist is to create something totally new ... to push the envelope so that you, the viewer, will say 'Wow, I have never seen anything like that before!'"

"The process of creating a piece is intriguing. The concept happens on its own as I am applying the paint. The abstract art emerges from within, spiritually. The colors, shapes and textures guide me on their own. The process is organic, the piece forming as the paint is applied. I am merely a conduit for the idea. I know when a work is complete, when my intuition tells me it is."
- Allan Rodewald, Abstract Artist

Allan does not begin a painting with a preconceived idea. Each morning as he enters his Houston studio, there may be a dozen works in process. Each speaks to him with a different voice, One calls for a particular color; another says more texture; and patterns may inspire further exploration. He moves from canvas to canvas attending to the needs of each.

On Becoming an Abstract Fine Art Painter

Rodewald:
"In my abstract art, I strive to express myself without words, without symbols, with no representation of what is generally considered the real world."

The artist knew at an early age that his life's work would be as an artist. His youth was spent in rural southeast Michigan (Ottawa Lake, population 3000), where at 7 he showed such promise, that his mother and father became his first teachers. Both parents are naturally talented, though not formally trained or full-time artists.

With private lessons, Allan quickly moved from charcoal and pastels, until by 12, he was doing oil paintings. While earning his B.F.A. (1980) in drawing and painting at Siena Heights College, he studied art in Florence, Rome and Venice, Italy. There, his life-long interest in seeing beyond objective reality began to take root with tentative experiments in cross-hatching and other ways of breaking objective reality down to its basic elements. In 1980, Allan also painted his first representational mural.

A move to Houston, Texas (population 3 million) in 1982 prompted the creation of his company, Expressive Design Studios, which specializes in custom paint and graphic arts for commercial use and private individuals.

By 1996, Expressive Design's business became focused on satisfying increased demand for murals and commercial graphics for businesses and restaurants such as River Oaks Grill, The Aquarium, in downtown Houston, and a spectacular 7ft. by 70 ft. mural in the information center of Houston City Hall.

Stretching the Boundaries of Abstract Art

Rodewald: "I have spent many years painting thousands of images of people, animals and places real and fantastical, but abstract art is much more challenging than any of that."

In 1996 as his commercial business was taking off, Allan's interest in abstract art began to rekindle. Expressive Design Studios moved to a new facility near downtown Houston in 2000. This new location doubles as a studio and art Gallery; where he can create contemporary and abstract fine art. Periodically, the studio becomes a venue for Gallery showings of these works to the public.

Today, he paints his abstract art on canvas or aluminum sheet metal. Canvases with work in progress are not mounted on frames, but stretched taunt on his studio walls moving from one piece to the next as the inspiration comes.

To inquire about purchasing any of Rodewald's abstract fine art, you may call or email him directly.

Enjoy a visit to the Abstract Art Gallery.