Hawkins Bolden

Sans titre, 1986, métal, toile de jute, 57 x 47 cm - © christian berst — art brut

Date 1914 — 2005

Country United States

Hawkins Bolden, half Creole and partially Native American, went blind at the age of 8 after a baseball accident. The small house he lived in in the city was stuck between a car wash and a high brick wall. In the shade of this wall, there was a small garden that Bolden loved and protected from external aggression with “scarecrows” that he made with found objects.

These sculptures were embedded in the ground and had faces made of car wheel covers, metal pots and metal plate ends. Each surface was pierced with holes and decorated with rubber hose ends and pieces of carpet.

Artworks

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untitled, 1986

14.96 x 15.75 in

Sans titre - © christian berst — art brut

Sans titre, 1986

11.81 x 17.32 in

Sans titre, 1986

13.78 x 14.57 in

Sans titre, 1986

13.78 x 14.17 in

Sans titre, 1986

11.81 x 12.6 in

Catalog

American Outsiders I the Black South / African-American vernacular art

American Outsiders I : the Black South - © christian berst — art brut

Preface : Phillip March Jones
Foreword : Christian Berst
Catalog published to mark the exhibition American Outsiders I : the Black South / African-American vernacular art, from june 19th to july 18th, 2009.
Co published with les éditions Le livre d’art, 2009.

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Exhibitions

Harry Irene

galerie Xavier Hufkens. From July 6 to September 10, 2023.

hawkins bolden, lonnie holley, et mary t. smith presented in the exhibition By Any Means Necessary at the blum & poe gallery

Curated by Lonnie Holley, Blum & Poe Los Angeles. From April 29 to June 10, 2023.

Exhibition souls grown deep like the rivers, black artists from the american south with Thornton Dial, Hawkins Bolden, Mary T. Smith, Mose Tolliver and Henry and Georgia Speller

royal academy of arts, london, united kingdom. From March 17 to June 18, 2023.

Inaugural Exhibition

Pre-Renovation Potluck, March, New-York. From May 15 to June 30, 2021.

A Different Mountain

selected works from the Arnett collection, marlborough gallery, London. From November 21, 2019 to January 18, 2020.

The Museum of everything

Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. From June 17, 2017 to April 2, 2018.

american outsiders I

the black south, at the gallery. From June 19 to July 18, 2009.