Richard Loving (artist)
American visual artist (1924–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Loving (1924–2021) was an American artist and educator, primarily based in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2] He gained recognition in the 1980s as a member of the "Allusive Abstractionists," an informal group of Chicago painters, whose individual forms of organic abstraction embraced evocative imagery and metaphor, counter to the dominant minimalist mode.[3][4][5][6] He is most known for paintings that critics describe as metaphysical and visionary, which move fluidly between abstraction and representation, personalized symbolism taking organic and geometric forms, and chaos and order.[7][2][8] They are often characterized by bright patterns of dotted lines and dashes, enigmatic spatial fields, and an illuminated quality.[7][9][10][3] In 2010, critic James Yood wrote that Loving's work "mull[ed] over the possibilities of pattern and representation, of narrative and allegory" to attain a kind of wisdom, transcendence and acknowledgement of universals, "seeking understanding of self within the poetics of the physical world."[11]
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Born | January 27, 1924 |
Died | March 27, 2021 Oak Park, Illinois, United States |
Nationality | American |
Education | Art Students League, The New School for Social Research, Bard College |
Known for | Painting, Drawing, enamel art |
Awards | National Endowment for the Arts |
Website | Richard Loving |
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Loving's art has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago,[12][13] Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York,[14] Block Museum of Art,[15] Hyde Park Art Center[8] and Brauer Museum of Art.[11] His work belongs to the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[16] Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,[17] and Smart Museum of Art, among others.[18][19]