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12/3/2002

Robert Hawkins

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York

New Paintings

"HIS COMPARATIVE SIMPLICITY IS WHAT GIVES HIS WORK IT'S SLIGHTLY NAUSEATING BRILLIANCE."
-Gary Indiana, ART IN AMERICA, October 1984

"A DISTURBING ASPECT OF HIS WORK IS ITS UNEXCITED, OFTEN CHEERFUL VIEW OF THE IRREMEDIABLE"
-Gary Indiana, VILLAGE VOICE, April 1986

"YOU CANNOT NAME ONE PAINTER OF HIS GENERATION COMPARISON WITH WHOM BASQUIAT WOULD NOT FIND LAUGHABLE. THE EXCEPTION WOULD BE ROBERT HAWKINS WHOSE WORK JEAN ADMIRED AND COLLECTED"
-Rene Ricard, World Crown: Bodhisattva with Clenched Mudra, JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993

"EVEN THE MOST ABSURD AND OUTRAGEOUS IMAGES HAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPTH AND MEANING"
- David Ebony, ART IN AMERICA, May 1995

"SUCH A UNIQUE ARTIST FOR OUR TIMES"
-Victoria Pedersen, PAPER, 1997

"WHY ROBERT HAWKINS IS NOT MORE WELL KNOWN, IS ONE OF THE ANOMALIES OF THE ART WORLD"
-Christopher Chambers, NEW YORK ARTS, March 1997

"ONE CAN ALWAYS EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED FROM ROBERT HAWKINS, WHO FOLLOWS A UNIQUE PATH, OBLIVIOUS, OR RATHER IMPERVIOUS, TO THE VARIOUS TRENDS THAT OVER THE YEARS HAVE ENGULFED THE LESS TALENTED OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES"
-David Ebony, ARTNET, April 2000

This show of fairly large (Warhol portrait-size 40x40) paintings is a grand but accessible lump of Hawkins' ideas. Nothing too punishing or obtuse. More goofy than weird.

Fairy tales, bible stories and myths, instead of ghost stories this time.

13 March - 13 April 2002

Opening Reception: Saturday, 16 March 6 - 8 PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday; 11-6pm

FOR INFORMATION:
GRACIE MANSION Chelsea
504 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
T. 212.645.7656 F. 212.462.4111
http://www.artincontext.org/new_york/gracie_mansion_gallery/

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