Visions of Anticolonial Futures from Worlds of the Past

By Shaunna Rodrigues

NOV 2021 | Critics Page

Towards the end of 2019, India witnessed massive protests that spread across the country. This was the first time in a hundred years that Indians had taken to the streets pervasively to protest the erasure of Islamic lifeworlds in India.

Richard Hawkins: The Forrest Bess Variations

By Christian Liclair

APRIL 2022 | ArtSeen

For his Forrest Bess Variations, Hawkins created a series of abstract paintings in vibrant colors that are, as the title indicates, mediations on the late Forrest Bess (1911–77), a gay painter from coastal Texas, who is known for translating his mythical visions onto canvas.

59. (Coney Island, 42nd Street, the Meatpacking District, among other locations)

By Raphael Rubinstein

JUNE 2021 | The Miraculous

Deserted by his parents at a young age, subjected to abuse by his supposed caregivers, a New Jersey teenager finally has no option but to drop out of school and run away to New York City where he survives, barely and dangerously, as a street hustler. Now in his mid-20s and trying to make his way as an artist he embarks on a project that takes him back to many of the locations where he used to sell his body for sex: “the places I had hung out in as a kid,” he later explains, “the places I starved in or haunted.”

Roy Dowell

By D. Dominick Lombardi

MARCH 2022 | ArtSeen

The first thing visitors may notice about Roy Dowell’s paintings is the mystical aspect of the work—the ritualistic nature of the forms, even the otherworldly feel of the narrative that falls somewhere between the more abstract paintings by Marsden Hartley and the wild visions of the hallucinatory interstellar traveler Adolf Wölfli.