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Signed by author/illustrator on title page with inscription, "To my dearest friend, best." Minor edge wear. 2006 Large Softcover. 48 pp. March 4, 2007 - April 8, 2007. Running concurrently in Highland Park and Evanston, Illinois. Paintings from 1977-1999: The Art Center, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, Illinois. Paintings from 2000-2006: Evanston Art Center, 2603 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois. Essay by Sue Taylor and James Yood. Richard Loving (1924?2021) was an American artist and educator, primarily based in Chicago, Illinois. 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. 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. They are often characterized by bright patterns of dotted lines and dashes, enigmatic spatial fields, and an illuminated quality. 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." Loving's art has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York, Block Museum of Art, Hyde Park Art Center and Brauer Museum of Art. His work belongs to the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Smart Museum of Art, among others. Seller Inventory # 2342018
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