Alvin Hollingsworth
Slate Stone Collage Painting - African American Artist - Spiral Group, 1971
Stone, Slate, Paint,Wood Panel, Glue, Bottle Cap
18 × 24 1/4 × 2 in / 45.7 × 61.6 × 5.1 cm
$ 26,000.00
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African American Artist Alvin Hollingsworth creates a mixed-media abstract painting\\u002Fcollage that abounds with inventiveness and creativity. Large sections of the work are composed of thin pieces of slate that are...
African American Artist Alvin Hollingsworth creates a mixed-media abstract painting\\u002Fcollage that abounds with inventiveness and creativity. Large sections of the work are composed of thin pieces of slate that are glued onto a wood panel support. Flat rocks are added and positioned on the iron-red ground. Found elements such as a bottle cap, typographer's numbers, and remnants of the white press type are also included. It's 1971 and the artist is doing a semi-type painting - a theme today's contemporary artists are running with. Finally, Hollingsworth etches a portrait of a man in a thin line on one of the slates. Guggenheim 1971 and his name are also inscribed into the rock. The work takes on a different character as the light changes and reflects off the stones and due to it's 3 dimensional quality the work is as much an object as an image. br Exhibited: New York, Lee Nordness Galleries, circa the 1960s. Lee Nordness Galleries label on verso. br PROVENANCE br Gifted by the artist to the current owner, a long-term family friend of Hollingsworth