He’s Bay Crossings’ version of Saul Steinberg, the revered New Yorker cartoonist. Check out his quirky and thoughtful drawings of Oakland.
Published: July, 2004
Alan Leon is an artist, muralist, Fulbright scholar, teacher, world traveler, kids’ camp director, and yogi. He has lived in San Francisco and Oakland for the last 14 years. He is presently working on a book about creativity.
His basic modus operandi is the love of looking around, interpreting, discovering, and documenting the environment around us. Our eyes are composition-making machines that can afford us tremendous, underutilized pleasure. He has always loved the edge-water/land, night/day, inside/outside, etc. Over the last several years his nighttime dreams have been almost exclusively spatial-shape, form, materials.
He has painted more than 50 murals in the Bay Area, including Parallel Migrations: Movements Along the Bay, a 72-foot long “From the Elk tracks to the BART tracks” image at Gilman St. in Berkeley.
He teaches art and yoga, panoramic drawing and creativity classes around the country. He can be reached at (510) 654-8486.
