Artists

FRANK BOWLING

Born and raised in Guyana, Bowling arrived in London in 1953, and his artistic career began in earnest in the late 1950s on his arrival at the Royal College.  A bright star in the Royal College constellation of those years, he graduated in 1962, the year of his first solo show.  In the mid 60's, excited by developments in American painting, Bowling moved to New York, where he pursued a successful career, including a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. From the late 70's onwards he has divided his time between his studios in London and Brooklyn. 

Bowling began his career as a figurative painter. His paintings of the late1950s through the early 1960s, executed in oils mainly in earthy pigments infused with miscellaneous extraneous materials, evidenced distinctly social and political narratives. Described by critics as expressionist figuration these works evoked the permanent image making reality of past trans-cultural traditions, fused with the fluid present reality of Bowling's evolving mark of hand.

Frank Bowling's paintings have been widely exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1971), Serpentine Gallery (1986) and UK touring retrospective Frank Bowling: Bending to the Grid (2003), Bowling's work can be found in neuromas prestigious collections including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Tate Gallery, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.