Al Held + Robert Mangold: B/W to Color
How do artists learn from and influence one another? This exhibition explores the relationships between the work of American abstract artists Al Held and Robert Mangold in the 1960s and onwards. Mangold studied under Held at Yale University and the years that followed represented important transitional moments for both artists.
Intensely interested in working within the language of geometric abstraction to challenge notions of perspectival space, from 1967 to1977 Held devoted himself to creating large-scale, black & white paintings. At that time, the younger artist, Mangold, focused on combining line with geometric planes of color to similarly explore the possibilities for creating dimensionality and depth. The exhibition, which is culled from the Weatherspoon鈥檚 permanent collection, features important paintings from this period, as well as others dating through 1992.
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How do artists learn from and influence one another? This exhibition explores the relationships between the work of American abstract artists Al Held and Robert Mangold in the 1960s and onwards. Mangold studied under Held at Yale University and the years that followed represented important transitional moments for both artists.
Intensely interested in working within the language of geometric abstraction to challenge notions of perspectival space, from 1967 to1977 Held devoted himself to creating large-scale, black & white paintings. At that time, the younger artist, Mangold, focused on combining line with geometric planes of color to similarly explore the possibilities for creating dimensionality and depth. The exhibition, which is culled from the Weatherspoon鈥檚 permanent collection, features important paintings from this period, as well as others dating through 1992.
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