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Alan Lee Turner (1943–2020) was an American painter and printmaker whose work resists neat classification, blending surrealist touches with figuration and a raw physicality that feels both unsettling and strangely intimate. Born in the Bronx, he studied at City College of New York and later earned an MFA at UC Berkeley before returning to live and work in New York. Throughout his career, Turner explored the body as something at once recognisable and unstable: particularly in the 1980s, he produced images where limbs, features, and textures are enlarged, spliced, or compressed, creating forms that hover between human and otherworldly. Alongside his paintings, he worked extensively in printmaking - etching, linocut, and lithography - and his works now reside in major collections including MoMA, the Whitney, and the Denver Art Museum. Critics have described his art as humorous yet unsettling, lyrical yet disquieting, continually shifting our sense of the familiar and the strange.

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