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Studio Museum documents Loving as an experimental geometric abstractionist and the first Black man to receive a solo exhibition at the Whitney in 1969.
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1935–2005
Experimental abstractionist whose geometric and later fabric/collage practices test color, frame, material, and the politics of abstraction without becoming a single racialized style.
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Studio Museum documents Loving as an experimental geometric abstractionist and the first Black man to receive a solo exhibition at the Whitney in 1969.
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