Cynthia Hawkins: Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D
Paula Cooper Gallery•Mar 27, 2025 — May 03, 2025
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Since 1972, Cynthia Hawkins has consistently painted abstractly and in series, exploring diverse literary, philosophical, and scientific influences through work that is rich in color and meaning. For her first one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, Hawkins will present new paintings from her ongoing series Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D (2023–). In these works, the form of specific maps direct investigations into color and light, providing both an underlying compositional structure and a symbolic vocabulary that plays out on the surface. By manipulating the same maps within each work and across the series, Hawkins provides a consistent point of entry that guides the viewer to engage in extended looking.
Hawkins’s recent interest in maps originated with studies of Maori and Marshall Island stick charts—an ancient form of marine cartography that relied on memory and bodily navigation. While thinking about these alternative forms of mapmaking, Hawkins rediscovered preparatory…
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Cynthia Hawkins: Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D
Paula Cooper Gallery•Mar 27, 2025 — May 03, 2025
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Since 1972, Cynthia Hawkins has consistently painted abstractly and in series, exploring diverse literary, philosophical, and scientific influences through work that is rich in color and meaning. For her first one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, Hawkins will present new paintings from her ongoing series Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D (2023–). In these works, the form of specific maps direct investigations into color and light, providing both an underlying compositional structure and a symbolic vocabulary that plays out on the surface. By manipulating the same maps within each work and across the series, Hawkins provides a consistent point of entry that guides the viewer to engage in extended looking.
Hawkins’s recent interest in maps originated with studies of Maori and Marshall Island stick charts—an ancient form of marine cartography that relied on memory and bodily navigation. While thinking about these alternative forms of mapmaking, Hawkins rediscovered preparatory…
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