This catalogue accompanies the exhibition ‘Frank Bowling: Landscape’ at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood.

The book is lavishly illustrated and includes foldouts of artwork details.

It features an essay from art historian Dorothy Price, which focuses on the dialogue between Bowling’s and Turner’s work.

Price notes that “gestural sweeps and vast horizon lines bind these artists across time.”

Bowling’s invention of “a new sublime” is subsequently explored through the link between Blackness and the sublime that has existed since the eighteenth century.

She also notes that the incorporation of found objects—plastic spiders, hospital equipment, and the nozzle from a spray can among them—plays a key role in Bowling’s dialogue with the history of abstraction.

Published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Frank Bowling: Landscape’, 25 May – 5 Aug 2023, Hauser & Wirth, West Hollywood, California.

Published with Hauser&Wirth.

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