Flash L.T.G., c. 1970
Collage Painting, 48" x 48"
Dale Loy was born in Los Angeles in 1934. She received a B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1955 and an M.F.A. in painting from American University, Washington, D.C., in 1974. In addition to painting, Loy has held several editorial and reporting positions for the New York Herald Tribune, Mademoiselle, and Horizon Books, among other publications. Her work can be found in several private collections and has been included in exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, and the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, as well as in Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Plainfield, Vermont. Both in her early abstract collage paintings and in her more recent landscape paintings, Loy proves herself to be a master of the brushstroke, applying paint with energy and power. Her landscapes are haunting evocations of the perennial, often contentious, relations between man and nature.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.