Spanning the artist's 70-year career, Angel of Anarchy, her retrospective organized by Whitechapel Gallery, places the artist not just within British Surrealism, which drew a number of talented female painters into its orbit, or just within French Surrealism, with its notorious position about women as objects of fascination. But her work was chosen for the influential 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition at London's New Burlington Galleries, leading to an enduring association that masked the complexities of her relationship with the movement. IN TIME: The artist is also showing his works at Arnolfini, in Bristol, until the 26th of September.Įileen Agar never chose to be a surrealist. At age 87, he continues to innovate with the use of thick textures, acrylic gels, collages, seams and metallic and pearlescent pigments. Influenced by the English landscape tradition and American abstract expressionism, the artist explores light, color and geometry in a unique way. The artist, it is worth noting, used to start a work in one city and finish it in the other, merging the environments of both.īowling's transatlantic orientation reveals itself in a shift from his early involvement with expressive figuration and pop art, to an immersion in a unique poetic abstraction that continues to evolve to this day. “It was a place of new energies and ideas for an artist in search of innovative ways of making paintings”, as stated in the text on the gallery's website. New York is the city that attracted him at the height of the Civil Rights movement. London is the city where Bowling trained as a painter and where he gained early acclaim. In the following years he divided his time between the art scenes in London and New York, maintaining studios in the two cities. With works spanning more than 50 years of the British icon's career, the show celebrates the artist's creative look at the materiality of painting, resulting in an intriguing expansion of the boundaries of abstraction.īorn in Guyana (then British Guiana) in 1934, Bowling arrived in London in 1953, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1962. The inaugural exhibition of frank bowling as a featured artist for Hauser & Wirth is occupying two gallery locations simultaneously, in London and New York.
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