September, 2025. Acrylic on canvas with marouflage. Photographed by Anna Arca. Courtesy of the artist.
"September is one of the most recent paintings Bowling will have on show in São Paulo, and it will also be the first to greet visitors at his retrospective. Bowling is now 91, and, while he still paints every day, he’s disappointed that he won’t be there for the opening. “Although I will not now ever make it to São Paulo in my body,” he says, “I will be there in my paintings. And you know, I’m visiting South America all the time in my dreams and daydreams. I’m brought back to memories of the fishes in South America and the water creatures—the frogs, the crabs and the scales on the fishes, the shells.”"
September 23, 2025