Alan Grabelsky received his MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts in 1972. While studying film at CalArts he spent two summers learning printmaking at RISD with Alan Metnick. Following his graduation from CalArts he began a 40-year career in film and television. He worked on films including “Gorky Park” and “Continental Divide”; was Executive in Charge of Production at Vestron Pictures, where he supervised production of “Dirty Dancing”, amongst other films; was Vice President in Charge of Production at HBO where he supervised over 20 films, including the Emmy Award winning “Miss Evers Boys”, and “If These Walls Could Talk”; and at Discovery where he was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Production Management for all fifteen Discovery Communications channels. After retiring from Discovery in 2012, he returned to printmaking full time, working in Baltimore, Maryland, at The Litho Shop with master printer Brian Garner, at Sol Print Studios with internationally acclaimed artist Soledad Salame, at the Baltimore Print Studios, and since 2018, he's been printing serigraphs exclusively at Manual Feed Press with Ian Jackson. In New Brunswick, Canada, he maintains a studio practice at the Charlotte Street Art Centre in Fredericton.

In Baltimore he is represented by Ink Spot Press and in Fredericton by Gallery 78. He’s shown his work in Maryland at Ink Spot Press, VisArts Gallery, Y:Art Gallery, and the Baltimore Creative Alliance. In Canada he’s shown at Gallery 78, The Saint John Art Centre, Sunbury Shores, Spicer-Merrifield, and at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

Alan Grabelsky’s art explores themes of intimacy, aging and disintegration. The work begins with a sensorial, but not necessarily visual knowledge of a subject. With that interior knowledge he makes a drawing that serves as an image template, which is used as the foundational element for multiple ink drawings on wet media acetate. The ink drawings are then used to make a photo-litho plate, solar etching plate, silkscreen, or laser cut wood block. Those elements are then combined in a variety of multi-layered printing techniques to make a print on paper.

The Winter Workshop Show 2025, Ink Spot Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2025.
Excavations: Ink Sculptures, Relics, and Artifacts, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2025.
Ink Spot Press at AHI, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2023.
Figures and Portraits, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2023.
Pulled, Pressed, and Screened, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2023.
Love Songs: A Journal of Fateful Encounters, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 2021.
Love Songs: A Journal of Fateful Encounters, Saint John Art Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 2021.
The Summer Workshop Show, Ink Spot Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2021.
The Winter Workshop Show, Ink Spot Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2020.
The Protest Show, Ink Spot Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2019.
Personal Encounters, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2019.
Summer Nature Show, Ink Spot Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2019.
Contemporary Printmakers of New Brunswick, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 2019.
Print Show, Ink Spot Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2019.
The Print Show, Y:Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2018.
The Art of Printmaking, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2018.
Marquee Ball and Silent Auction, Baltimore Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2018.
Ink and Light on Paper, Charlotte Glencross Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2017.
Barriga Llena y Corazon Contento, 2400 Boston Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2016.
The Art of Printmaking, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2016.
Print Show, Saint John Art Center, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 2016.
Printmakers Showcase, Sunbury Shores, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, 2015.
Hoi Polloi, Vis Arts Gallery, Rockville, Maryland, USA, 2014.

Ink Spot Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

1972 MFA Film & Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
1969 BA Psychology, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.