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Rebecca AllenRebecca Allen is a native of Colorado and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. She also attended the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, as part of an art institute exchange program. After graduation she worked for many years for exhibit design firms in Denver and Chicago. Currently she works for her husband; architect Lane Allen, assisting with as a drafting, design, and architectural illustration. Rebecca founded and curates The Gallery at Allen+Pepa Architects, which is dedicated to showcasing the work of local artists. She was a founding member of the Batavia Renaissance Project, which was organized to promote and encourage art activities in Batavia and was a founding organizer and steering committee member of the Art in Your Eye Fine Arts Festival. Her work "Wilson Street Bridge" was recently purchased by the City of Batavia for the festival poster and Batavia's permanent art collection. Her work can be seen on the website www.bataviarenaissanceproject.org under the "Gallery of Art" Lane AllenLane Allen is a native of Batavia and attended the University of Michigan, where he studied Botany. After a couple years, he took time off to pursue his love of woodworking, and apprenticed himself to a master furniture builder in Alma, Wisconsin. He later returned to school to study architecture at the University of Oregon, where he earned his degree. After many years of working for major architectural firms in Denver and the Chicago area, Lane started his own architectural firm in Batavia, now known as Allen+Pepa Architects. From childhood, Lane has had a love of the traditional Japanese art of paperfolding called origami. In recent years he has developed techniques for producing origami in metal and using it as a basis for large-sized sculpture. He sees many correlations between the geometries of origami and those in architecture. His origami work can be seen at www.origamilane.com. |
