Hello, I'm Alan K.

I’m Alan Kaminsky. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering, I spent 17 years in industry doing software development at Bell Laboratories, Harris Corporation, and Xerox. I then spent 25 years teaching computer science as a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I retired from RIT in 2019, wondering about how I would spend my time. Backing up a bit, in 2016 along with my family I visited Dia Beacon, a museum of contemporary art in Beacon, NY. There I was struck by an exhibit of artworks by Sol LeWitt, an artist I had not encountered before. LeWitt’s works emphasized regular arrays of simple patterns, drawn or painted by people following instructions LeWitt created. I said to myself, “I could make art like that.” But working as a full time faculty member left me no time to pursue the idea, and I put it on the back burner. After retiring, I remembered that museum visit. Now I had time to pursue creating my own artworks. I’m a digital printmaker. I create an artwork by writing a computer program that generates an image file, then I print the image on fine art paper using a photographic quality inkjet printer. I do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI). All images are solely my own creations. I do mostly abstract art, occasionally foraying into surreal art. I love to create artworks with fascinating geometrical shapes and vivid colors flowing across the print. I'm especially inspired by artists including Sol LeWitt, M. C. Escher, Mark Rothko, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Ellsworth Kelly.