On the “City Lights” series “Speaking of Art,” local artists share insights into their influences, processes, and experiences in town. This edition features artist Steve R. Allen. “I work now in a style that I’ve been informed is Fractal Afrofuturism,” Allen says.
“What it is is I use a lot of geometric shapes and patterns and whatnot that I create in that type of work. Incorporating that with human figures at times.”
When Allen moved to Atlanta in 1992, he was taken to the National Black Arts Festival. He looked at the work and determined that he could do that, too.
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