Bookforum | Frank Bowling’s Americas: New York, 1966–75

"In his first years in New York, Bowling drew on his Guyanese heritage for a series of works that depicted his mother’s house in British Guiana. [...] The electrified pink that drenches Doughlah G.E.P., 1968–71, named after an especially hot chili pepper, darkens in blocky areas that correspond to the general locations of South America and Africa as well as pictorial elements from previous paintings."