Photo credit: Dia Art Foundation

Ep.230 Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) was born in Guyana, South America. Parallel to his studio practice, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ in 1983. Steeped in modest materials, such as polyester, push pins, map pins and metallic string, form is foregrounded and the slippage between drawing, painting and sculpture places his work in a space that challenges the conventions of each medium, and forces the viewer to experience form on its own terms. Hazlewood explains, “Like a sculptor, I work to find ‘shapes’ and ‘volumes’, implied or actual. And like painting, the layering becomes an intuitive search for textures, color and form…I define edges, where things begin and end, where they may find relationships and multiple transitions against or into each other. I think of this as ‘drawing’ the accumulation of parts into active and resonant connections. Then those ‘active’ parts are pinned into a final configuration, something that feels properly ‘evocative’ yet stable as plastic form.”

Solo exhibitions of his work include BlackHead Anansi: Constellations at Charlotte and Philip Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, South Carolina (2023); Racing Thoughts-Fever Dreaming at Art Basel Miami Beach (2022); and BlackHead Lyricism at Welancora Gallery (2022). Hazlewood has been the recipient of fellowships at the MacDowell organization (2023, 2015); the Brown Foundation at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2018); and the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy (2018). His fifty-two-foot-tall wall work, TRAVELER (2017), was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Queens. Collections include: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , The Study Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy, The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo – Brazil, The Schomburg Center Collections, New York, NY, The University of Guyana, South America and The National Collection of Fine Arts, Castellani House, Guyana, South America.

Artist https://www.carle-hazlewood.com/

Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/71-carl-e.-hazlewood/works/

Brattleboro Museum  https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2024/10/21/carl-e-hazlewood-infinite-passage/

Sharpe-Walentas https://www.thestudioprogram.com/artists-hp2023/carl-e-hazlewood

Ortega y Gasset Projects https://www.oygprojects.com/swimming-blind-in-a-wine-dark-sea

Duck Creek arts  https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-group-show-ranee

Whitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/must-see-shows-in-the-hamptons-on-view-now/

Bomb https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/07/02/an-oral-history-with-cynthia-hawkins-by-julia-trotta/

Art Students League  https://www.artstudentsleague.org/events/painters-talking-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-abstraction

Wake Forest | Hanes Gallery https://hanesgallery.wfu.edu/blackhead-anansi-constellations/

Valentine Museum of Art  https://valentinemuseumofart.com/artists/36-carl-hazlewood/works/

Art in Dumbo https://dumboopenstudios.com/listings/artist/carl-e-hazlewood/

Stabroek news  https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/02/04/sunday/eye-on-art/circling-back-to-carl-e-hazlewood/

Macdowell https://www.macdowell.org/artists/carl-e-hazlewood

Art Cake https://artcake.org/artist-carl-e-hazlewood

David Richard gallery  https://davidrichardgallery.com/news/865-carl-e-hazlewood-demerara-dreaming-triptych-paintings-1996-2003-david-richard-gallery-chelsea-february-17-2022

BlackHead Anansi- Expanding Web, 2022
Mixed media, 120 x 108 in.
Copyright: The Artist Courtesy of Welancora Gallery

GoldDust Dancer, 2022
Acrylic polymer emulsion, powdered pigments, oil pastel, brads, tape, gold cord, with collage on canvas, faux diamonds
80 x 40 in
Copyright: The Artist Courtesy of Welancora Gallery

Black Song & Bloodlines, 2017
Mixed media, 80 x 50 x 1 in.
Copyright: The Artist Courtesy of Welancora Gallery

BlackHead Anansi- Constellations, 2023
Mixed media, dimensions variable
Copyright The Artist Courtesy of Welancora Gallery