Allan
Mitelman.
day01. is very proud to share Personal Space an intimate presentation to honour the work of Allan Mitelman.
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“Allan Mitelman is not an artist whose work it is easy to characterise. His imagery is frequently non-figurative, the surfaces of his paintings are dense and, at first appearance, impenetrable. Gradually, as the viewer becomes immersed in the work, an awareness grows of a great subtlety and richness. There is a strange and haunting beauty in his work, unusual and enigmatic, but of a lasting quality .... Although parallels may be drawn with the work of artists as different as Paul Klee, Antonio Tapies, Cy Twombly, Mark Tobey and Milton Resnick, Mitelman’s language remains peculiarly his own. The surface, frequently worked over by endless soft tonal lines and traces of colour, seems to obscure and eat away any recognisable image which once may have existed in the initial stages. There are hints of shapes buried beneath the organic breathing veils of marks of sensuous refinement, and these are suggested through nuances in surface textures and accented graffiti-like shapes…
While Allan Mitelman could be described as a gentle lyrical abstractionist working essentially within a minimalist aesthetic, there is also a toughness to his work, which seems to be conveyed with a deceptive ease. There is also a meticulousness in his working method, an attention to detail which borders on the obsessive ... His work is non-figurative and it is largely untitled, yet it is not a minimalism which finds its origins in a cerebral activity, it is not an illustration of a theoretical formula ... lt is a work which first engages the senses, rather than the intellect.
The genius of Allan Mitelman in part lies in the ability to make a very powerful artistic statement without revealing the artist’s hand. It is a rare gift of creating a rich fabric of ambiguity, potent with meaning, but always ineffable.” - Sasha Grishin, 2013
Press Release
Personal Space.
1 –– 29 November 2025