Field Dreaming Yellow Incursion by Carl E Hazlewood, Acrylic Polymer Emulsion, 10 x 46 inches, 2000 (Photo: Courtesy of the artist – From Demerara Dreaming Triptych Paintings: 1996 – 2003)
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Pinkskin Blackhead Archer by Carl E Hazlewood, Pigment ink, polyester, acrylic, pastel map pins, colour pencil, Hahnemuhle, and other papers, 51 x 34 inches, 2022. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist – From BlackHead Lyricism)
Although figuration and landscapes do not define the work of Carl E Hazlewood (b 1951) they do, at times, inform it. Nearly two years ago, Hazlewood debuted a series of paintings that until then had never been presented together, even for the artist’s solitary viewing. The show, Demerara Dreaming: Triptych Paintings: 1996 – 2003, ran from February 15 to March 25, 2022 at the David Richard Gallery in New York City. (The gallery would later host shows by Guyana-born artists Arlington Weithers and Carl F Anderson.) Hazlewood’s paintings were astonishing to anyone who had been following his work over the last ten years, or so. The paintings were very small – a result of being ends or cutouts from larger canvases completed during the 1970s and early 1980s, when he says he was “hard at it”.