Alan Petrulis, a native New Yorker, studied at Queens College and the Maryland Institute of Art where he earned earn a MFA in printmaking. His work has appeared in a number of solo exhibitions, and has been added to the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, The New-York Historical Society, The Museum of the City of New York, and The New York Transit Museum. His line etchings are derived from photographs taken during walks; and from this slow and deliberate process, he has learned to address the landscape as one would a person, becoming aware of its moods and disposition. Rather than documenting, these works are meant to discover the soul of things in a quest to better see what lies within ourselves.