Albert Nagele
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Albert Nagele (1935-2018) was an American abstract painter who created large-scale, hypnotic, dot pattern paintings with a style he self-coined as “Abstract Pointillism.” Winning multiple awards while exhibiting at the Art Institute of Chicago, he had a healthy art career with multiple institutional exhibitions in the 1970s while having representation by Deson-Zaks Gallery. Nagele’s paintings imbue a static white noise that seems chaotic up close, yet orderly from a distance. Intricately painted using dots, often from a stencil similar to Lichtenstein’s comic book printing dot magnifications, Nagele folded a manufactured, pop-derived, technique into his minimalist abstractions.
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