Epic Abstraction presents a historic survey of Al Held's pivotal works from 1959 to 1965, charting his dramatic progression from gestural abstraction to hard-edged geometric forms. The exhibition features his Collage Paintings and monumental Alphabet series, which crystallize Held's central concerns of scale, structure, and the tension between illusion and surface. Marking the first solo presentation of Held's work in Los Angeles in five decades, this exhibition demonstrates how the artist systematically stripped away expressionist brushwork to achieve increasingly potent elemental forms that toggle between graphic signs and dimensional objects.
