Welancora Gallery is delighted to present Racing Thoughts-Fever Dreaming: New Paintings by, Guyana - born and New York - based artist, Carl E. Hazlewood at Art Basel Miami Beach, Nova Section booth N17.
After many years of creating free form site-specific installations and other combined-media works, Carl E Hazlewood (b.1951) has made new paintings that formally echo, in some ways, the colorful poetics of his process oriented paintings from the ‘Demerara’ series produced during the late 1970s through 1980s.
About those earlier paintings he said at the time, “I was born in the Demerara region of Guyana. There is a great river, ‘Demerara’ and a county named after it. Without sounding overly dramatic or romantic, my paintings are, at least in the conventions of naming, an acknowledgement of the persistence of cultural and personal memory encoded in the way I see colour—that is, landscape colour, skin colour, pure prismatic colour. “
More introspective in its approach to themes and concepts regarding identity and how one exists in our current social and cultural reality, this new body of work retakes its place alongside the extemporaneous wall works the artist has become known for over the last ten years or so.
