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Alvin Demar Loving Jr

Alvin Demar Loving, Jr. (1935 - 2005) was active/lived in Michigan, New York.  Alvin Loving Jr is known for Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs.

An African-American collage artist, painter of geometric abstraction and educator, Al Loving was known for work that explored color and "vibrant counterpoint". He first gained wide public attention with hard-edged geometric paintings in a 1969 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art. His later works became more fluid and were multi-layered, acrylic painted constructions described in a 1974 "New York Times Review" as 'dynamically composed reliefs, wall pieces that energize the space around them, seemingly almost to be caught in the act of moving across the wall."

Alvin Demar Loving was born in Detroit. His father was an educator and part-time sign painter who became a Dean at the University of Michigan School of Education. His mother, Mary Helen Greene, was a quilter whom Alvin, fascinated by the blocks of color, used to spend much time watching as she sewed.

Loving earned a fine arts degree at the University of Illinois in 1963 and a Master in Fine Arts Degree from   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1586 characters.]  Artist bio

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