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Al Loving
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CV Education University of Illinois, BFA, 1963 University of Michigan, MFA, 1965 Selected Public Collections The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY The Whitney Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY The Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA The Detroit Institute of Art Detroit, MI The Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, OH The Museum of African American Art Detroit, MI The Newark Museum of Art Newark, NJ The Renaissance Center Detroit, MI The Studio Museum in Harlem New York, NY The New Jersey State Museum New Jersey The New Jersey Library The Detroit Public Library Detroit, MI The Everson Museum of Art Syracuse, NY The Akron Art Museum Akron, OH The Museum of Art Durham, NC The Convention Center Philadelphia, PA The Currier Museum of Art Manchester, NH The Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University Ithaca, NY Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster , PA University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana, IL The Montclair Art Museum Kenkelba Gallery New York, NY Vassar College AT&T Corporation New Jersey AT&T Corporation New York, NY Prudential Life Insurance New Jersey Chemical Bank New York, NY Veyss Corporation Arco Corporation Empire State Collection New York, NY Bell Atlantic Washington, DC Public Commissions 2001 MTA Arts for Transit 70 faceted glass windows and a 7x15’ tiled mosaic wall for the Broadway/East New York Subway Station Complex in Brooklyn, NY 1998 Wayne State University 10x15’ tiled mosaic wall for the Adamany Library in Detroit, MI 1996 Sacramento Convention Center 18x12’ collage painting in Sacramento, CA 1994 York College 12x25’ collage painting for the gymnasium lobby in Queens, NY 1985 Detroit People Mover 100x10’ tile mural for the Millander Station in Detroit, MI 1980 Veteran Administration Hospital 56x8’ acrylic paint on canvas in Bronx, NY 1973 Empire State Mall 70x8’ acrylic painting in Albany, NY “Septehedron” 50x50’ mural painting for a building at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, New York, NY (removed 1988) 1971 The First National Bank 208x80’ mural painting in Detroit MI (removed 1989) 1970 JFK International Airport 22x7’ acrylic paint on canvas in the International Departure Hall, Queens, NY Positions Held 2002 Pratt Fine Arts Center Monoprint and collage workshop Seattle, WS 1999 Art Students League Instructor New York, NY 1998 Brandywine Workshop Visiting Printmaker Philadelphia, PA Lafayette College Visiting Artist Easton, PA Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist Johnson, VT 1997 Wayne State University Visiting Artist Detroit, MI 1988-96 City College of New York Professor New York, NY 1994 Cooper Union Visiting Artist New York, NY Triangle International Workshop Visiting Artist Kingston, Jamaica Triangle International Workshop Visiting Artist Masomak, NY 1992 Cornell University Printmaking Residency Ithaca, NY Triangle International Workshop Visiting Artist Maputo, Mozambique 1991 International Art Workshop Visiting Artist Dunedin, New Zealand 1990 Cornell University Artist in Residence Ithaca, NY 1987-88 University of Vermont Artist in Residence Burlington, VT 1986-87 University of Tennessee Artist in Residence Knoxville, TN 1985-86 Virginia Commonwealth University Artist in Residence Richmond, VA 1984 Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop Guest Artist New York, NY 1981 Skowhegen School of Painting & Sculpture Artist in Residence Skoweghegan, ME 1980-81 Maryland Institute of Art Artist in Residence Baltimore, MD 1978-79 University of Kansas Artist in Residence Lawrence, KA 1976-78 William Patterson College Fulltime Faculty Wayne, NJ 1975-76 Notre Dame University Artist in Residence South Bend, IN 1974-75 Ohio University Artist in Residence Athens, OH 1971 Hampton University Visiting Artist Hampton, VA 1970 University of California Visiting Artist San Diego, CA 1964-68 Eastern Michigan University Fulltime Faculty Ypsilanti, MI 1963-64 University of Michigan Teaching Fellow Ann Arbor, MI One Person Exhibitions 2004 Formal Continuity Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL Bird of Birds G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Chicago, IL 2002 Perpetual Motion Jeffrey Moose Gallery Seattle, WA 2001 Home G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Detroit, MI 2000 The Life and Continual Growth Brandywine Workshop Philadelphia, PA The Bold and the Beautiful Marymount College Art Gallery New York, NY 1999 Elegant Ideas G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Chicago, IL G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Birmingham, MI 1998 Color Constructs The Neuberger Museum Purchase, NY Eyedances The Durst Organization’s Gallery New York, NY Al Loving Lafayette College Art Gallery Easton, PA Recent Works Porter-Troupe Gallery San Diego, CA 1997 Power and Love G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Chicago, IL Al Loving in the Nineties University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 1996 Al Loving G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Birmingham, MI 1995 Al Loving The Ice House Gallery Telluride, CO Al Loving Sande Webster Gallery Philadelphia, PA 1994 Xayamaca Long Island University Southhampton, NY 1993 Perpetual Motion G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Birmingham, MI Rectangular Genesis Sande Webster Gallery Philadelphia, PA Al Loving: New Work Alitash Kebede Gallery Los Angeles, CA 1992 Al Loving: Material Abstraction June Kelley Gallery New York Al Loving Pace University New York Al Loving: Collage Paintings Concordia College Ann Arbor, MI 1991 Sande Webster Gallery Philadelphia, PA Al Loving: Maker of Art National Academy of Arts and Sciences Washington, DC Al Loving Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association Birmingham, MI Al Loving Galbreath Gallery Lexington, KY 1990 Al Loving G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Birmingham, MI Al Loving: Collage Paintings Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA Al Loving GMI Engineering and Management Institute Flint, MI Redemption Songs June Kelly Gallery New York 1989 Al Loving Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx, NY Al Loving Harlem School of the Arts New York 1988 Liz Harris Gallery Boston, MA Jazzonia Gallery Detroit, MI June Kelly Gallery New York 1987 Harris Brown Gallery Boston, MA Al Loving University of Vermont Burlington, VT Al Loving University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 1986 Al Loving: Departures The Studio Museum in Harlem New York 1984 Al Loving Onyx Gallery New York Al Loving University of Vermont Burlington, VT 1983 Diane Brewer Gallery New York 1982 Jazzonia Gallery Detroit, MI 1980 Diane Brewer Gallery New York 1979 Grippe-Zivian Gallery New York 1978 Al Loving University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, WI Judy Kalis Gallery Lawrence, KS 1977 The Studio Museum in Harlem New York 1976 Fishbach Gallery New York Elaine Benson Gallery Bridgehampton, NY Al Loving Notre Dame University South Bend, IN 1974 Ohio State University Columbus, OH Fishbach Gallery New York Ohio University Athens, OH 1973 William Zierler, Inc. New York Tyler School of Art Philadelphia, PA 1972 William Zierler, Inc. New York William Zierler, Inc. New York 1970 Gertrude Kasle Gallery Detroit, MI 1969 Al Loving Whitney Museum of American Art New York Gertrude Kasle Gallery Detroit, MI Selected Group Exhibitions 2004 Something to look forward to The Phillips Museum of art, Lancaster, PA Franklin and Marshall College Vivacious II, Diggs Gallery, WSSU Winston-Salem, NC The N’Namdi Collection 2003 Vivacious, Diggs Gallery, WSSU Winston-Salem, NC The N’Namdi Collection 2002 Six American Masters Sugar Hill Art Center New York, NY 2000 Neuberger Millennium Auction Neuberger Museumm Purchase, NY Works on Paper by African- Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA American Artists from the Collection 1999 African-American Art: Flint Institute of Art Fling, MI Twentieth Century Masterworks VI Rhythm, Pattern, Color: the Drum Grand Army Arch Gallery Brooklyn, NY Jazz…A Montage by the Sea The Sage Colleges Albany, NY traveling show Christiane Nienaber Contemporary Art New York Arlene Bujese Gallery East Hampton, NY Off the Wall Stanford Center for the Arts Stanford, CN 1997 New York City Nein Gallery Myrtle Beach, SC 1996 48th Annual Purchase Exhibition American Academy of Arts and Letters New York Abstract Art, Then and Now Kean College Union, NJ 1994 The Persistence of Abstraction The Noyes Museum Noyes, NJ Turning Silver into Gold Benefit Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, OH Exhibition Anderson Gallery Buffalo, NY 1993 Selected Works from the 1993 Brasilia Center Maputo, Mozambique Workshop Jazz, A Tribute to Billy Holiday U.B. Blake Museium Baltimore, MD 1992 The Printmaking Workshop: Bob The Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, OH Blackburn’s Collection Anita Shapolsky Gallery New York Visiting Artist Exhibition University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 1991 43rd Annual Purchase Exhibition American Academy of Arts and Letters New York Forms of Abstraction G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Birmingham, MI The Search for Freedom: African- Kenkeleba Gallery New York American Abstract Painting The Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, OH Works on Paper Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Greensboro, NC Carolina Major Artists from the Permanent The Studio Museum in Harlem New York Collection Alitash Kebede Los Angeles, CA The Harlem Renaissance Manhattanville College Manhattanville, NY Remembered 1990 Directions Newport Art Museum Newport, RI Legacies New Jersey Center for Visual Arts Summit, NJ Louisa Macintosh Gallery Atlanta, GA Sande Webster Gallery Phildelphia, PA Collaged Papers St. Botolph Club Boston, MA 1989 The Appropriate Object The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY The Detroit Institute of Art Detroit, MI San Jose Museum of Art Speed Museum of Art La Pintura Hoy: De New York a Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires 1988 Print Exhibition Brandywine Workshop Philadelphia, PA 1987 Montclair Museum Montclair, NY June Kelly Gallery New York Many Ann McCarthy Gallery New York New York, New Venue The Mint Museum of Art Charlotte, NC Squibb Gallery Princeton, NJ Isabel Neal Gallery Chicago, IL 1985 New Color Abstraction Cleveland State University Art Gallery Cleveland, OH Selections from the Chemical Bank Chemical Bank New York Collection Recent Acquisitions The Studio Museum in Harlem New York Purely Pulp, Selections from the Exeter Press New York Exeter Press Permanent Collection Kansas City Artists Collection Kansas City, MS 1984 Since the Harlem Renaissance Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, OH East/West: Contemporary The California Afro-American Museum Los Angeles, CA American Art Affirmations of Life Kenkeleba Gallery New York 1983 Seven American Artists The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH New York Celebrates Britain Polytechnical University Manchester, England 1982 Color, Material, Form Currier Gallery of Art Manchester, NH Crystal Britton Gallery Atlanta, GA 1981 Afro-American Abstraction P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Long Island City, NY Everson Museum of Art Syracuse, NY 1980 Another Sensibility 22 Wooster Gallery New York Hyla Saltz Gallery Seattle, WA 1979 Summer Loans The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Another Generation The Studio Museum in Harlem New York Guild Hall East Hampton, NY 1978 Gallery Group 22 Wooster Gallery New York 1977 New York Art “77” Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, NY 1976 Vassar College Art Gallery Poughkeepsie, NY 1975 34th Biennial of Contemporary Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, DC American Art Works on Paper Weatherspoon Gallery Greensboro, NC 1974 Soft as Art New York Cultural Center New York 1973 1973 Biennial Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art New York Contemporary American Art Lamp Black Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Whitney Museum of American Art New York American Art 1971 The De Luxe Show Houston, TX Contemporary Black Artists in Whitney Museum of American Art New York America 1970 Living American Artists Gallery Maight Paris, France Afro-American Artists: New York Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA & Boston 1969 Five Plus One State University of New York at Stony Stony Brook, NY Brook Afro-American Art after 1950 Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY 1968 Afro-American Art Detroit Institute of Art Detroit, MI National Acrylic Show Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI Grants Awards and Fellowships 2001 2002 Absolut Expressions Commission 1996 Joan Mitchell Award 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Grant New York State Council of the Arts, CAPS Grant Change Incorporated 1970 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1965 University of Michigan, Teaching Fellowship 1964 Rackham Memorial Fellowship, University of Michigan Selected Panels and Lectures 2004 Slide Lecture, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 2002 “Format Composing,” Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI “The Abandonment of formal Skills”, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago IL 2000 Juror for painting grant for New York Foundation for the Arts, New York 1999 “Conversation with April Kingsley,” Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY 1997 Friends of Education Studio Visit Lecture, Museum of Modern Art, NY Lecture, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 1996 Slide lecture, City University of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 1995 Lecture, New Jersey State University, Trenton, NJ “The Influence of African Art on Contemporary Art,” Artist Talk on Art, NY Slide lecture and interview, Art in General, NY 1994 Juror show for Michigan Water Color Society, Ann Arbor, MI 1993 Final critiques for the Printmaking Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI “Geometry and Abstraction,” Panel discussion, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “Printmaking,” Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI 1992 Lecture, National Museum of Art, Maputo, Mozambique Lecture and demonstration, School of the Arts, Maputo, Mozambique Lecture, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI 1991 Lecture, International Art Workshop, Dunedin, New Zealand Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Lecture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 1989 “An Evening with the Artist,” Smithsonian Institute---Archive of American Art, Washington, DC Lecture and demonstration, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA Workshop and Panel Discussion, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Lecture and demonstration, General Motors Institute, Flint, MI 1987 Lecture, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Lecture, University of Missouri, Columbia, MR Panel discussion, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY Lecture and discussion, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend, IN Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 1978 Lecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1975 Lecture, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT 1971 Lecture, Hampton University, Hampton, VA Selected Bibliography Aston, Dore, New York Commentary, Studio International 179 (April1970): 187 Baker, Kenneth, Review, William Zierler Gallery, Artforum (June 1972): 86 Bowling, Frank, “It’s not Enough to Say ‘Black’ is Beautiful.” Art News (April 1971): 83-8 Brenson, Michael, “Bright Collage-Paintings Animated by the Spiral,” The New York Times (May 25, 1990): C21 Colby, Joy, “Big Al is Black,” The Detroit News (October 1, 1993) Corbett, William, Review, Liz Harris Gallery, Boston, Art New England (November, 1988) Cotter, Holland, “Six American Masters,” The New York Times (June 14, 2002) Fine, Elsa Honig, The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity, New York: Holt Rhine Winston, 1973 Goode-Bryant, Linda, Contextures, New York: Just Above Midtown, 1978 Heartney, Eleanor, “Al Loving at June Kelly,” Art in America (June, 1993): 1004-5 Heineman, Susan, Review, Fishbach Gallery, Artforum (September, 1974): 83 Henry Gerrit, “Al Loving at Onyx,” Art in America (April 1985): 202-3 Jones, Kellie, “Al Loving” Redemption Songs, New York: June Kelly Gallery, 1990 Jones, Kellie, Six American Masters, NewYork: Sugar Hill Art Center, 2002 Kramer, Hilton, The New York Times (April 8, 1975) Kingsley, April, Afro-American Abstraction, San Francisco: The Art Museum Association Kingsley, April, Al Loving: Color Constructs, Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, 1998 Mattison, Robert S., “Al Loving: Vision and Metaphor” Curlee Holton, “Al Loving: Weaver the Dust” Al Loving, Detwiller Visiting Artist, Easton, PA: Lafayette College Art Gallery, 1998 Myers, Terry R, Review, June Kelly Gallery, Arts (September 1990): 94 O’Dell, Kathy, The Empire State Collection: Art for the Public, Albany: 7 Patton, Sharon F., African-American Art, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998 Powell, Richard, Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997 Robinson, Walter, “Alvin Loving at William Zierler,” Art in America (September-October 1973): 110 Schjeldahl, Peter, “Coming Back From Early Success” NY Times 21 (April 1974): 2-21 Sims, Lowery S., Legacies, Summit, NJ: New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, September 166-27, 1990 Taha, Halima, Collecting African-American Art, New York: Crown Publishers, 1998 Welzenbach, Michael, Review, National Academy of Arts & Sciences, Washington Post (May 11, 1991) Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Al Loving Solo at Fishbach Gallery,” Art News (October 1976): 12 Wright, Beryl, The Appropriate Object, Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1989 Yolles, Sandra, Review, June Kelly Gallery, ARTnews (November 1990): 164-5 Zimmer, William, “A Show That Ends Where It Begins,” The New York Times (December 6, 1998) |
