April 28 – May 11, 1976
Art Gallery, Eugenia Fuller Atwood Library
1976 BEAVER NEWS
“Alvin Loving’s show features Powerful and personal mode” by Paula Oram
The works of Alvin Loving will be presented on campus with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Forum Committee, and the Beaver Department of Fine Arts. His show will open April 28 in the Atwood Gallery at 7:30 p.m. Preceding the opening at 4:30, Mr. Loving will lecture in the gallery. The show will be open from two to five daily and run through May 11.
Mr. Loving’s show will feature paintings made from torn paper and canvas. These works are wall-oriented. He has displayed his work in one-man shows at the Whitney and Tyler School of Art, in addition to the Fishbach. About the same time of his Beaver show, Mr. Loving will have a show in New York.
The artist received his M.F.A. from the University of Michigan. As a graduate student there, he was a graduate instructor of Mrs. Ann Williams. Mrs. Williams, a lecturer in fine arts, feels “he is basically an expressionist painter who employs a full range of colors and [chiaroscuro] (dark to light values) in a powerful and personal mode.”
Mr. Davis, Professor of Fine Arts and Chairman of the Department, explained that “Mr. Loving’s work is a very exciting development in contemporary art with a fresh, vivid approach. Students will enjoy meeting him and talking to about his unusual art.”
