Al Loving "Torn Canvas"
Garth Greenan Gallery
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Gary Snyder Gallery announces Al Loving: Torn Canvas, an exhibition of mixed media constructions and works on paper at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on November 1, 2012, the exhibition is Loving's first since his death in 2005. Five of the artist's monumentally scaled, dyed and torn fabric wallhangings will be on view, as well as a selection of handmade paper collages, many of which have never before been exhibited. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with an essay by Katy Siegel.
The exhibition and its accompanying publication provide an in-depth look at the artist’s work from 1973 to 1985—sweeping expanses of richly colored cut and sewn fabric suspended on the wall. Works in the exhibition such as Self-Portrait #23 (c. 1973) illustrate the uniqueness and sheer dynamism of Loving's work from this period. Disenchanted with his earlier, hard-edge geometric paintings, the artist dispensed with notions of centralized composition, figure/ground separation, and pictorial frame. In works like Self- Portait #23, Loving combined literally hundreds of pieces of torn fabric into an abundance of overlapping patterns and shapes. Their rich and intuitive array of colors stretches irregularly, extending to the floor, encompassing the surrounding space, and engulfing the viewer.
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Schedule
from November 08, 2012 to December 15, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-11-08 from 18:00 to 20:00