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Al Held

Born in Brooklyn, New York
(1928 – 2005)

A pioneer of hard-edged abstraction, American painter Al Held (1928–2005) created works of great complexity that acknowledged the then-dominant painterly vocabulary of American abstraction at the same time as being profoundly informed by a history of painting rooted in the European Renaissance. During his 50-year career, Held single-mindedly committed to an exploration of the potential for abstraction to reach beyond the realm of the viewer’s primary senses. Continually expanding his painterly language and practice, often in opposition to the dominant ideologies, as the painter and his former student Michael Craig-Martin wrote: ‘His work remained rigorous, and uncompromising, challenging one’s perceptual pre-conceptions and intelligence, rather than conforming to received wisdom or flattering good taste.’[1]

Available Artworks

Al Held

F-60-04, 1959

Price upon request

Al Held

Todi 10, 1989

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Al Held

Spata 6, c.1996

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Exhibitions

Gallery Exhibition

Gallery Exhibition

Gallery Exhibition

Al Held

28 January – 28 February 2021

West Palm Beach

Gallery Exhibition

Al Held

The Sixties

20 November 2020 – 27 February 2021

Bermondsey, London



Films

In the Gallery

Daniel Belasco on Al Held

Daniel Belasco, Executive Director of the Al Held Foundation, explores the artist’s monumental exhibition ‘Al Held: About Space’ at White Cube Bermondsey.



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