Allen Robison Barter

Retired from 27 years of teaching High School Art for the Morongo Unified School District Allen makes his home on 5 acres overlooking Twentynine Palms, California in the Mojave Desert.   Allen has been making art since his college days, and is no stranger to the sometimes controversial nature of artistic expression.  In the late 70's he erected a temporary half-bridge across Chico Creek (with the permission of the president of Chico State University) which landed him in hot water with the local Sierra Club (of which he was a card-carrying member). Later, some of the old guard in Twentynine Palms found a nude triptych offensive.  The female form continues to be a dominant motif in Allen's work.  He is inspired by the work of Jackson Pollack, and seeks to emulate the fluidity of Pollack's canvases in the materials he uses in his sculptures.