Karin and Janie Talking

1976

Not on view

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.

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Title: Karin and Janie Talking
Artist: Al Loving (American, Detroit, Michigan 1935–2005 New York)
Date: 1976
Medium: Torn and pasted papers on paper
Dimensions: 41 1/2 × 30 3/4 in. (105.4 × 78.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
Object Number: 2021.54.30
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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