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Al Held 'Al Held The Sixties' White Cube Bermondsey 20 November 2020 - 27 February 2021
Al Held 'Al Held The Sixties' White Cube Bermondsey 20 November 2020 - 27 February 2021
Al Held 'Al Held The Sixties' White Cube Bermondsey 20 November 2020 - 27 February 2021
Al Held
Esopus I, 1969Acrylic on canvas289.6 × 365.8 cm | 114 × 144 in.© the artist. Photo © Christopher Burke, New York Courtesy White CubeFurther images
Al Held: The Sixties will be exhibited at White Cube Bermondsey, London, from 20 November 2020 − 27 February 2021. ‘I started trying to create structures. To give some meaning...Al Held: The Sixties will be exhibited at White Cube Bermondsey, London, from 20 November 2020 − 27 February 2021.
‘I started trying to create structures. To give some meaning to the insanity around me, to what I would consider insanity [...] I’m just going to draw and give information and [...] articulate the situation in terms of [a] paradox of situations.’
– Al Held, 1976
Exhibitions
1969 Annual Exhibition, Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 16 December 1969 – 1 February 1970.
Rosc ’71, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 24 October – 29 December 1971.
Al Held: Black and White Paintings 1967–1969, Cheim & Read, New York, 18 February – 26 March 2016.
Literature
John IH Baur, 1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1969 (unpaginated)
Anne Crookshank, Rosc ’71: The Poetry of Vision: An International Exhibition of Modern Art from Outside Ireland and Viking Age Art, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 1971, p.58
Marcia Tucker, Al Held, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974. p.70
Irving H Sandler, Al Held, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1984, p.87
Richard Armstrong, Al Held, Rizzoli, New York, 1991, fig.44
Alex Bacon, Al Held: Black and White Paintings 1967–1969, Cheim & Read, New York, 2016, p.11
Dennis Kardon, ‘The Disorienting Power of Al Held’s Black-and-White Paintings’, Hyperallergic, 18 March 2016
Online Presentations
