Simon Hantai

Simon Hantai, at Paul Rodgers... through 9/13.

gotta post the Hantai after Parrino.

Simon Hantai

Al Loving

Al Loving, at Gary Snyder. Closes 12/15.

Al Loving on anaba 1/8/08. So great.

I missed it but if you like this you should also see Alan Shields' Maze at Greenberg Van Doren... they were both in High Times, Hard Times... I made a label of artists in that show whom I have seen shows of since, more than twenty posts so far and I think I missed labeling a few.

Al Loving.

There was a great Sven Lukin show at Gary Snyder earlier this year.

Alan Shields

Alan Shields, at Greenberg Van Doren.


Dance Bag, 1985

I've been loving his work since first seeing it in the High Times, Hard Times show at the Weatherspoon.




1984


detail


1980-81

He was into Buckminster Fuller's dome-style architecture and was imagining work built for future geodesic dome houses, spaces without conventional flat walls.


reverse


1971-73, cylinder... hangs by a center cable, slowly rotates




beads paint thread cloth


Alan Shields.

Totally primed me for loving Lauren Luloff

George Sugarman

George Sugarman, Untitled, 1969

George Sugarman, at Washburn Gallery.


1966




1966

Raphael Rubinstein on George Sugarman.


George Sugarman, Cornerstone, 1959

The gallery has two rooms, '60's stuff is in one room with '50's work in the other. GO SEE.

Simon Hantai

Simon Hantai, Tabula, 1981, in a show at Paul Kasmin (27th St).

Joe Fyfe on Simon Hantai.

Al Loving

Al Loving, Untitled, 1981

Al Loving at Wilmer Jennings Gallery.


top left corner


bottom center

Al Loving

Linda Benglis

Linda Benglis, at Andrea Rosen.


piece of candy, sparkly mermaid


chicken wire hanging on nail.

PS to PD - we were both right.... Braman/Shapiro are in the middle room, Benglis is in the last room.

Al Loving

Al Loving, Untitled, 1986, fabric and painted paper collage on stretchers. CliCK here, or on the image, to see it larger.

These Lovings, and one more, are included in a small group show at the New York State Museum. The untitled piece above consists of three pieces of loosely draped fabric over stretchers, topped with a collage of stained and thinly painted cut paper shapes. IT'S PERFECT!!! I'm not sure how the paper construction is attached to the fabric, without pulling it down.

Loving considered himself a "material abstractionist", a term used a lot in Joanne Mattera's recent Miami posts.


Al Loving, Floyd Street #4, 1985, acrylic, ink, collage and gels on stretchers.

This one is layers of overlapping and painted cut paper applied to some type of panel, and painted over.


The edges are kind of wobbly, with something soft, like felt, applied all around the sides.


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