Mr. Alan Pulner revisits the themes of queerness neglected in an age of such global acceptance  In his Reading the Flame(s) exhibition at NOON Projects. In the ideas he shares, there is a constancy in the playfulness of the word-choice “flame”; with its characteristic derision of the “flaming f__got” he depicts in media with an otherwise robust materiality of wooden panels and metallic parts. It is with these pieces, jigsaw in their idea, he attempts to portray an element of what is otherwise extrapolative by design. 

Enough Isn’t. Shekiyah. , 2024. Alan Pulner.
Oil on panel
50″ x 52 in. Courtesy of the artist and NOON Projects. All Rights Reserved. photograph Evan Walsh.

Stop Awake. Ready, it Doesn’t Hurt., 2024. Alan Pulner. Oil on panel with hardware.
44 1/2″ x 25 x 12 in. Courtesy the artist and NOON Projects. Photograph Evan Walsh.

For with each contouring style, each with their own missing bits that otherwise are intended to inform of a mysterious story – a hidden world, perhaps, unseen to the naked eye; consistent though not by necessary intent of that closeted-ness – that the artworks are intended to be apart of.

Alan Pulner
Scintillating Chemistry. Don’t Stop., 2024. Alan Pulner.
Oil on panel with hardware. 17 x 9 1/4″ x 4 3/4 in. Courtesy the artist and NOON Projects. All Rights Reserved. Photograph Evan Walsh.

Stop Awake. Ready, it Doesn’t Hurt., 2024. Alan Pulner. Oil on panel with hardware. 44 1/2″ x 25 x 12 in. Courtesy Alan Pulner and NOON Projects. All Rights Reserved. Photograph Evan Walsh.

And the paints, full of vibrant colors, affixed to the poetical license of the flame idea construed choicely, enrich the rigor of the physical medium, which is a delight to sample. For that firmness of wood, its muscularity so opposed the delicacy of a feminine care, with a strength of resiliency is a positive contribution to that time in Mr. Pulner’s own vivid memories not so long ago, yet quite possibly negligent to newcomers of a world won; of a victory march passed the open cries of justice in dying from AIDS. 

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