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October 22, 2022–April 9, 2023


FRANK BOWLING’S AMERICAS

Credit

Frank Bowling, Middle Passage(detail), 1970. Synthetic polymer paint, silkscreen
ink, spray paint, wax crayon, and graphite on canvas. Menil Collection, Houston.
Photograph by Adam Neese. © Frank Bowling. All rights reserved, DACS, London &
ARS, New York 2022.

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Frank Bowling, Middle Passage(detail), 1970. Synthetic polymer paint, silkscreen
ink, spray paint, wax crayon, and graphite on canvas. Menil Collection, Houston.
Photograph by Adam Neese. © Frank Bowling. All rights reserved, DACS, London &
ARS, New York 2022.

“Modernism belonged to me also.” So resolved British Guiana–born artist Frank
Bowling in 1966, when he moved from London to New York City, impelled by
ambition to make his mark on modern painting. “Frank Bowling’s Americas” is the
first exhibition dedicated to the transformative years the artist spent in the
US, and the first major survey of his work by an American institution in more
than four decades.

Bowling’s time in New York, from 1966 to 1975, calls for deeper exploration. His
decisive relocation brought him into contact with a vibrant and tumultuous art
scene, with abstract painting on an explosive rise, heated debates unfolding
around Black cultural identity and artistic practice, and Stokely Carmichael’s
slogan “Black Power” emanating from the South. Over the course of the next
decade, Bowling wrote copiously for art magazines, held several teaching
positions (including at Massachusetts College of Art), exhibited widely
(including a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971), and in
1969 curated “5+1,” an exhibition of five leading African American abstract
artists (Melvin Edwards, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Al Loving, Jack Whitten and
William T. Williams) plus Bowling himself at Stony Brook University, New York.
His experiences in the US catalyzed profound shifts in his painting, explored
here through more than 30 works.

The exhibition brings together a range of Bowling’s powerful works in the
country of their making—Pop-inflected paintings from the early 1960s;
monumental, color-soaked canvases that evoke oceanic expanses; and little-seen
examples of the artist’s technically pioneering paintings rooted in abstraction.
Providing for the first time a nuanced encounter with this pivotal chapter of
Bowling’s career, “Frank Bowling’s Americas” offers an essential contribution to
a more cross-cultural and global understanding of modern art.

The exhibition will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMOMA) from May 13 to September 10, 2023.

An accompanying illustrated catalogue, Frank Bowling’s Americas: New York
1966–75, produced by MFA Publications, will available in October 2022.


 * Henry and Lois Foster Gallery (Gallery 158)
 * Charlotte F. and Irving W. Rabb Gallery (Gallery 155)


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Additional generous support from the Henry and Lois Foster Fund for Contemporary
Exhibitions. Supported by the Robert and Jane Burke Fund for Exhibitions, the
Barbara Jane Anderson Fund, The Museum Council Special Exhibition Fund and The
Amy and Jonathan Poorvu Fund for the Exhibition of Contemporary Art and
Sculpture.


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