Press
“Alex 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.”
The Tenth Street ReviewMarch 2026 · Review
The Unfinished Hand: Alex Rowan at Kestrel Projects
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.
Northside QuarterlyNovember 2025 · Interview
I destroy most of it
A conversation about working quickly, throwing away eight paintings for every one that survives, and why the drips are never corrected.
Field Notes on PaintingJune 2024 · Feature
Six painters working against resolution
A group feature placing the Greenpoint work alongside five other studios holding out against the finished picture.
Harbor & GridFebruary 2023 · Podcast
Episode 74: From shopfronts to canvas
Fifty minutes on lettering Queens storefronts in the nineties and what handwriting does to a painting.
The Brooklyn LedgerSeptember 2022 · Mention
What to see this month
Listing for the two-person show at Rope Factory Annex.
Also written about in
- Rope & Ladder
- The Common Review
- Varnish
- Studio Hours Weekly
- Meridian Arts Journal
- Ninth Street Notes
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Updated 4 September 2026