Indie A. Choudhury

Indie A. Choudhury is a doctoral candidate in Art History. Her research focuses upon the art and literature of the Black diaspora. Prior to Stanford, she has worked in various galleries and museums in the UK, including the National Maritime Museum, Iniva, and Tate.

The Solace of Color: Frank Bowling’s White Paintings is a monograph on the abstract artist Frank Bowling (b. British Guiana, 1934) that examines his oeuvre through the series known as his white paintings (1962-2016). It is the first extended study of the series. The white paintings were produced in four successive phases over fifty years and have occupied the longest period of Bowling’s practice. Spanning the arc of his career between Guyana, London, and New York, this dissertation examines how Bowling’s radical reimagining of a monochromatic series reconceived the representation of black subjectivity, foregrounding his wider contribution to the remit of modernism and postwar abstraction through its conjunction with blackness.