Press
“Rowan paints like someone taking dictation from a language he has not finished inventing. The surface refuses to settle, and that refusal is the subject.”
A long read on the Greenpoint studio and the twelve canvases that came out of it, arguing that the sign-painting years are the key to everything that follows.
A conversation about working quickly, throwing away eight paintings for every one that survives, and why the drips are never corrected.
A group feature placing the Greenpoint work alongside five other studios holding out against the finished picture.
Fifty minutes on lettering Queens storefronts in the nineties and what handwriting does to a painting.
Listing for the two-person show at Rope Factory Annex.
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Updated 4 September 2026