Purchase Your Tickets for The Aljira Fine Art Auction 2013 and Be Entered Into a Drawing for Two Important Books

Frank Bowling, by Mel Gooding (autographed) and Bending the Grid: Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling

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“Frank Bowling by Mel Gooding, is a beautiful book. Published… by The Royal Academy and distributed in the US and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, it has a powerful tale to tell, and tells it well. …To anyone like myself who only came on the saga late (in the 1990s), the early part of Bowling’s career is the most revelatory. Did you know, for example, that although in the 1950s, he greatly admired Francis Bacon and himself went through a figurative expressionist phase, nevertheless his dissertation for the Royal College of Art dealt with Mondrian? Or that Larry Rivers taught him how to use an overhead projector to create the accurate outline drawings of South America and other geographical features that he used in his famous “map” paintings? Gooding’s account of Bowling’s artistic progress continues through an exhaustive analysis of his most recent (and most abstract) decades, with the writer using his literary talents to begin and end his tale with an emphasis on Bowling’s close relationship to “the great rivers of his life, the Essequibo and the Berbice, the Thames and the East River, each with its own particular shimmer, gleam and brilliance of light.” That this shimmer, gleam and brilliance have found their way into Bowling’s paintings (especially the abstract ones) is superbly documented by the lavish and high-quality color illustrations, to be found on more than two-thirds of the 149-page text.” – Piri Halaz

Frank and his artist partner Rachel Scott will be honored with Aljira’s first Timehri Lifetime Achievement Award at The Aljira Fine Art Auction 2013 on May 23—the kick-off of Aljira’s 30th Anniversary www.aljirafineartauction.org

Frank created Ahaaahead! a limited etching and aquatint edition to mark the celebration of Aljira’s 30th anniversary.

Frank Bowling was born in Guyana South America in 1936 and moved to London in 1953 where he graduated in 1962 with the Silver Medal in Painting from the Royal College of Art. In 1966 he moved to New York and has since split his time between his London and Brooklyn studios. Bowling’s paintings have been exhibited widely internationally and include solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Britain and Serpentine Gallery, London. In 2003, as the inaugural solo exhibition in the new Broad Street galleries, Aljira launched the Bending the Grid series with Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling, a major survey and comprehensive catalog of his work. More at http://frankbowling.com/

News: Frank created a stir recently when a Bowling sales record was broken at the NYC Armory Show. A collector purchased a 1971 painting, “Polish Rebecca” for $275,000. Read more here http://artsy.net/post/editorial-frank-bowlings-forgotten-painting