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slug: ACME Fine Art ‘Michael Loew: Towards Geometric Abstraction’

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BOSTON, MASS. — Acme Fine Art’s presents Michael Loew’s first solo exhibition, January 4–February 5.

The exhibition comprises a compact retrospective collection of paintings and drawings that were selected to tell the story of Loew’s careerlong interest in geometric abstraction.

The works included in the exhibition were executed between 1945 and 1980, and they demonstrate Loew’s remarkable evolution from a stylistic form of expressive nature-based cubism of the 1940s to a highly synthesized neoplastic purism seen in his “Open Space” series of paintings done in the late 1970s.

In her essay “Nature Into Abstraction” that was published in conjunction with Loew’s 1997 retrospective exhibition at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, curator Susan Larsen, PhD, aptly describes Loew’s early geometric work as a “fusion of landscape and radical abstraction.” The Acme exhibition will feature a series of Monhegan and Provincetown watercolors that date from between 1949 and 1960 that beautifully illustrate the “fusion” described by Larsen.  The exhibition will also feature large-scale “Open Space” paintings that represent the culmination of Loew’s artistic endeavors.

On Thursday, January 13, the gallery will host an opening reception from 6 pm to 8 pm and on Saturday, January 15, at 3 pm, Larsen, of the Archives of American Art, will give a gallery talk about Michael Loew and his work.

Acme Fine Art is at 38 Newbury Street in Boston’s Back Bay. Gallery hours are 10:30 am to 5:30 pm Tuesday through Friday, and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. For information, 617-585 9551 or info@acmefineart.com