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Frank Bowling’s work as an artist, critic, and curator has found new life in the present moment. He has always been a profound and enigmatic artist…
Frank Bowling moved to the United States in the mid-1960s, during a particularly tumultuous and pivotal moment in the country’s history. His art…
Upon settling in New York City in 1966, Frank Bowling became passionate about modernism and what he called “pure abstraction.” He explored it in his…
Art history has traditionally celebrated prolific and singular figures of the past: the name J. M. W. Turner immediately evokes sentiments of…
A longer version of this essay appeared in “Revisiting 5+1,” a catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name , which was on view at Stony…
Abstract adjective /abˈstrakt,ˈabˌstrakt/ 1. existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence 2. relating to abstract…
Accompanying the pivotal 1969 exhibition held in a converted classroom at Stony Brook University, the five-page 5+1 catalogue serves, in Frank Bowling…
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