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Frank Bowling

FRANK BOWLING

Landscape Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood 26 May–5 August 2023 West Hollywood
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One of the foremost British artists of his generation, Sir Frank Bowling has spent more than six decades relentlessly challenging the limits of the medium of painting and expanded its possibilities, attracting acclaim for his contributions to abstraction. ‘Landscape,’ the artist’s first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood, opening 26 May, will present 14 recent ebullient paintings that engage the rich art historical tradition of landscape painting – and propel it forward into the present moment.

To accompany the exhibition, Hauser & Wirth Publishers will produce an extensively illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

‘Landscape’ at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood coincides with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) exhibition ‘Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966-1975,’ the first major US presentation of the artist’s work in more than four decades. Traveling from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the exhibition will be on view 20 May – 10 September 2023, and will feature eleven additional artworks, including an expanded group of paintings made between 2018 and 2022.

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Over the course of six decades, Frank Bowling has relentlessly pursued a practice which boldly expands the possibilities and properties of paint. Ambitious in scale and scope, his dynamic engagement with the materiality of his chosen medium, and its evolution in the broad sweep of art history, has resulted in paintings of unparalleled originality and power. Bowling has been hailed as one of the foremost British artists of his generation. Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) in 1934, he arrived in London in 1953, graduating from the Royal College of Art with the silver medal for painting in 1962. By the early 1960s, he was recognized as an assured force in London’s art scene. During this period, his highly individual language of painting, which emerged from expressionistic figuration and pop art, encompassed autobiographical elements and the artist’s socio-political concerns.

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FRANK BOWLING Like Water Hauser & Wirth 11 June–29 August 2026 Hong Kong
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8980 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
Los Angeles
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Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm
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Los Angeles 8980 Santa Monica Boulevard
Hauser Wirth West Hollywood contemporary art gallery in West Hollywood Los Angeles United States
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood
8980 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States
+1 424 404 1200
http://www.hauserwirth.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm
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