Some Notes on the Subject of Lost (and Found) Queer Worlds
Ian Massey, The Brooklyn Rail
March 2025
Recent years have seen a rehabilitation of Procktor with UK retrospectives in 2012 and 2016, as well as in Bologna in 2023. His understated painterly language of landscapes and of figures has found a new audience appreciative of the artist’s ability to maintain a sense of poetic distance, and lightness of touch and perspective. Considered alongside present-day figurative painting, both Elizabeth Peyton and Alessandro Raho could be easily conceived as contemporary counterpoints. […]