Hyperallergic

Historical Memory Haunts Frank Bowling’s New Paintings

Now 84, the renowned abstract artist reflects on his Guyanese upbringing and the legacy of colonialism in a striking new series of paintings. As a Black artist born in a South American British colony, ...
The New York Times

Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs

With help from close relatives, the 87-year-old artist is still working, even if he doesn’t apply the paint himself. The British painter Frank Bowling is enjoying a surge of late recognition. This ...
The Boston Globe

At the MFA, ‘Frank Bowling’s Americas’ is a pivotal show for an artist who’s impossible to peg

Born in British Guiana, the painter, now 88, is the subject of his first major solo museum exhibition in the US Being in a room full of Frank Bowling’s big, blustery paintings, stained dark and bright ...
Artnet

After Decades of ‘Appalling’ Institutional Neglect, Museums Are Now Clamoring for Artist Frank Bowling’s Work

Art dealer Paul Hedge is getting “10 calls a day” from curators and collectors interested in veteran artist Frank Bowling’s vibrant paintings. But Hedge, the co-director of London’s Hales Gallery, is ...
WBUR

At the MFA, abstract painter Frank Bowling finally gets his due

Frank Bowling, "Penumbra," 1970. (Courtesy Fine Art Museums of San Francisco/Foundation purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions; Hales Gallery; Frank Bowling; DACS/Artimage, London & ARS ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Frank Bowling’s Americas’ Review: Ambivalent Abstraction

Frank Bowling—the 88-year-old black British painter—is currently the subject of a semi-retrospective exhibition titled “Frank Bowling’s Americas,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (The show travels ...
insider.si.edu

Frank Bowling, Mappa mundi / edited by Okwui Enwezor ; with contributions by Frank Bowling [and 6 others]

Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in ...
Artnet

British Painter Frank Bowling’s First Digital Artwork, an Evocative Play on Color, Lights Up London’s Piccadilly Circus

The renowned British abstract painter Sir Frank Bowling is unveiling his first-ever digital artwork on May 4 in London’s Piccadilly Circus. At 8:23pm BST, his work, titled Arrival, will flash across ...
SF Station

Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975

Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966-1975, the first major U.S. survey of the artist's work in more than four decades. Co-organized with the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, this exhibition captures the ...
Hyperallergic

Frank Bowling, or the Odd Man Out

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