Alan Magee is a painter, sculptor, singer/songwriter, and filmmaker who began his career as an illustrator in New York, creating covers for Time, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and for books by Graham Greene, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Edward Abbey, and many others. He was the recipient of a National Book Award in 1982. Since 1980 Magee has concentrated on his personal paintings and sculpture, exhibiting work in New York, on the West Coast and in Europe. His short films address gun violence, mass surveillance, and the assault on American democracy following the presidential election of 2016. A feature documentary, Alan Magee: art is not a solace, by David Berez and David Wright, had its premiere at CIFF in 2019.