Richard Hawkins: Potentialities - by Eva Birkenstock & Michelle Cotton (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Colorful, graphic and richly allusive, Hawkins' paintings, sculptures and film works teem with references old and new, personal and historical

Published with Kunsthalle Wien and Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover.

Since the early 1990s, Texas-born artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961) has developed a singular practice based upon the intense pleasure of looking and the dynamics of desire. He has described his work as "promiscuously referential," quoting from the histories of artistic representation in sculpture, painting, literature and the performing arts alongside popular culture and cinema in his collages. Titled after the philosophical concept of latent possibilities, Potentialities brings together more than 100 of Hawkins' 21st-century works from eight different series--spanning from acrylic paintings to ceramics and video montages--many of which were made in dialogue with Hawkins' artistic inspirations such as Forrest Bess, Antonin Artaud, Tatsumi Hijikata, Pierre Bonnard and his former professor Mike Kelley.