Karin and Janie Talking

Al Loving American

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By 1973, Loving began to jettison the rigid framing and compositional techniques he had used to construct his abstractions and commenced tearing pieces of brightly-hued canvas and paper, sewing and pasting the scraps together to create vertiginous, irregular, and voluminous works. Karin and Janie Talking belongs to the group he showed at his second exhibition at New York's Fischbach Gallery in 1976, all incorporate jewel-like hues and a wonderfully confetti-like aspect.

Karin and Janie Talking, Al Loving (American, Detroit, Michigan 1935–2005 New York), Torn and pasted papers on paper

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