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Al Loving Biography Al Loving Biography 1935 1977 Born: Detroit, Michigan The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 2005 1979 Died: New York, New York Grippi/Zivian Gallery, New York 1984–1985 EDUCATION Al Loving: Mercer Street Series, Onyx Gallery, New York, 1959–1963 December 18, 1984–January 16, 1985 University of Illinois, Urbana 1986 1963–1965 Al Loving: Departures, The Studio Museum in Harlem, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor New York, February 23–June 8 1987 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Al Loving, Frank H. McClung Museum, University of 1969 Tennessee, Knoxville, February 6–21 Alvin Loving, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, June 15– July 7 1988 James Little and Al Loving, June Kelly Gallery, New York, 1969–1970 June 11–July 1 Alvin Loving: Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 19, 1969–January 25, 1970 1989 Alvin Loving: Life and Continued Growrth Series, Bronx 1970 Museum of the Arts, New York, April 20–May 29 Alvin Loving: Recent Paintings, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, September 12–October 7 1990 Al Loving: Redemption Songs, June Kelly Gallery, 1971 New York, May 12–June 9 Alvin Loving, William Zierler, Inc., New York, March 6–27 1991 1972 Al Loving: Maker of Art, National Academy of Sciences, Alvin Loving, William Zierler, Inc., New York, March 11– Washington, D.C., April 10–June 15 April 1 Al Loving, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, May 3–31 1973 Alvin Loving, William Zierler, Inc., New York, March 3–31 1992 Al Loving: Material Abstraction, June Kelly Gallery, 1974 New York, November 5–December 1 Alvin Loving, Fischbach Gallery, New York, April 6–24 1993 1976 Al Loving: Rectangular Genesis, Sande Webster Gallery, Alvin Loving, Fischbach Gallery, New York, May–June 12 Philadelphia, March 3–30 Al Loving, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, September 17–October 17 1996 2015 Alvin Loving, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Al Loving, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, May 21— Michigan, September 21–November 2 June 27 1997 2017–2018 Al Loving in the Nineties: The Collaged Wallworks, Fine Spiral Play: Loving in the ‘80s, Art+Practice, Los Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Angeles, April 22–July 29; The Baltimore Museum of Kingston, January 21–March 8 Art, October 18, 2017–April 15, 2018 1998 2018 Al Loving: Detwiller Visiting Artist, Art Gallery, Williams Space, Time, Light, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, February 6– October 25–December 21 March 1 Detroit in the World: Selections from a Detroit Art Connoisseur’s Collection, Collected Detroit Gallery, 1998–1999 December 6– Al Loving: Color Constructs, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2019 September 27, 1998–January 24, 1999 Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 29– 1999 September 2 Al Loving: Elegant Ideas, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, April 30–June 4 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2001 1968 Alvin Loving: Home, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Afro-American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts September 13–October 20 1969 2002 Afro-American Art After 1950, Brooklyn College Art Al Loving: Bird of Birds, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Gallery, City University of New York September 13–October 12 5+1, Art Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, October 16–November 8; Art Museum, 2004 Princeton University, New Jersey, November 12–23 Formal Continuity: Works by Al Loving, The University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1970 February 9–March 1 Lamp Black: African-American Artists, New York and Al Loving: Lighter Than Air, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19– Chicago, September 9–October 29 June 23 L’art vivant aux États-Unis, Fondation Maeght, Saint- 2005 Paul, France, July 16–September 30 Al Loving: Color Weave, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, February 11–March 26 1971 Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney 2005–2006 Museum of American Art, New York, April 6–May 16 Al Loving: Affirmations of Life, Kenkeleba House, The Deluxe Show, Deluxe Theatre, Houston, New York, December 6, 2005–January 11, 2006 August 15–September 12 2012 1972 Al Loving: Torn Canvas, Garth Greenan Gallery, 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American November 8—December 29 Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19 1973 1985 1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Recent Acquisitions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York January 10–March 18 1987 Blacks: USA, 1973, New York Cultural Center, New York New York, New Venue, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, September 26–November 15 North Carolina, April 10–May 31 1975 1989 Image, Color, and Form: Recent Paintings by The Appropriate Object: Maren Hassinger, Richard Hunt, Eleven Americans, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, Oliver Jackson, Alvin Loving, Betye Saar, Raymond January 12–February 9 Saunders, John Scott, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, 34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, March 5–April 23 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 22–April 6 1990 Selected Works from the Dillard Collection: An Exhibition Legacies: African-American Artists, New Jersey Center of Works on Paper from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, for Visual Arts, Summit, September 16–October 27 University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, April 15–May 18 1991 The Search for Freedom: African-American Abstract 1977 Painting, 1945–1975, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, ’75, ’76, ’77: Painting, Part I, Sarah Lawrence College Art May 19–July 14 Gallery, Bronxville, New York, February 19–March 10; American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, April–May; 2000 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, June–July An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1979 February 5–April 16 Another Generation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 2002 1981 Six American Masters, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York, Afro-American Abstraction, Los Angeles Municipal May 17–June 27 Art Gallery, July 1–August 30 No Greater Love: Abstraction, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, September 12–October 12 1982 Color, Material, Form: Bowling, Loving, Mohr, Currier 2003 Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the Late January 9–February 14 20th Century, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 8–April 27 1983 Seven American Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004 January 11–February 13 Something to Look Forward to, Phillips Museum of Art, New Work, New York: Newcastle Salutes New York, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon- March 26–June 27 Tyne, United Kingdom, October 8–November 4 2005 1984–1985 The Chemistry of Color: African-American Artists in Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Philadelphia, 1970–1990, Pennsylvania Academy of Afro-American Art, Center Gallery, Bucknell the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, January 11–April 10 University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1984– November 1, 1985 2006 Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 5–July 2 Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, 2017 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and June 29–September 3 Brenda A. Thompson Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, January 28–May 7 2006–2007 ‘Elaine, Let’s Get the Hell Out of Here,’ Nicelle High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, Beauchene Gallery, June 29–August 18 Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Recollection: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Carolina, Greensboro, August 6–October 15, 2006; Guild Hall, East Hampton, October 21–December 31, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts 2017 Center, American University, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2006–January 21, 2007; National 2017–2018 Academy Museum, New York, February 13–April 22 Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 2008–2009 13, 2017–January 14, 2018 New Acquisitions: African-American Masters Collection, Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2017–2020 December 16, 2008–March 2, 2009 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963– 1983, Tate Modern, London, July 12–October 22, 2009 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949–1978, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3–April 23, 2018; Seattle Art Museum, June 25–September 7 Brooklyn Museum of Art, September 14, 2018– February 3, 2019; The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, 2011 March 23–September 1, 2019; Museum of Fine Arts, Paper Trails: Selected Works from the Collection, Houston, June 27–August 30, 2020 1934–2001, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 19–November 27 2018 Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin 2012 DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Roanoke, Virginia, March 3–September 2 Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 7– mark, team (gallery inc.), New York, March 8–April 21 November 25 MoMA At NGV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, June 9–October 7 2014 The Beautiful Difference, Francine Kelly Gallery, Make It New: Abstract Painting from the National Gallery Featherstone Center for the Arts, Oak Bluffs, of Art, 1950–1975, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, August 12–September
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