ROBERT HAWKINS "The Adventures of Andy Warhol (not in The Diaries)"

The elusive American artist, Robert Hawkins, who now lives in London makes a special appearance in New York, for a one man show, "The Adventures of Andy Warhol" to benefit The Warholian Lineage Research Center. "Robert Hawkins is not a big famous artist because he has resisted all attempts to make him that. And, up to a point, that was necessary and right. But now that he has a large, madcap, ferociously witty, and startlingly original body of work behind him; now that he has gone through his self-crucifixion phase and resurrected himself from the dead; now that he has allowed the smile to follow quickly the scowl; now, I think, it's time he can relax and enjoy making artwork on his own roving, druidical, picaroon, anarchic, swashbuckling terms." ...Glenn O' Brien "You cannot name one painter of his generation comparison with whom Basquait would not find laughable, the exception would be Robert Hawkins whose work Jean Michel admired and collected" ...Rene Ricard