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GARTH GREENAN GALLERY - Al Loving

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2015 · Entertainment

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Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Al Loving, an exhibition of mixed media constructions at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on May 21, 2015, the exhibition is Loving’s second with Garth Greenan Gallery. Seven of the artist’s torn paper “collage-paintings” will be on view, including Barbara in Spiral Heaven (1989), one of Loving’s largest and most ambitious works.
The exhibition provides an in-depth look at the artist’s work from 1978 to 1989—hulking masses of richly colored cut and torn paper mounted directly to the wall. Works in the exhibition such as Humbird (1989) illustrate the vibrance and sheer dynamism of Loving’s work from this period. As in his famed “torn canvases” of the early 1970s, the artist dispensed with notions of centralized composition, figure/ground separation, and pictorial frame. In works like Humbird, he combined hundreds of pieces of cut and torn paper into an abundance of overlapping patterns and shapes. Their rich and intuitive array of colors stretch irregularly, spiraling outward, surrounding the space, and engulfing the viewer.

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