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For
Immediate Release
July 2012
Pam Bowers
Memento Mori
June 22 – July 7, 2012
Opening Reception: 6-8pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Pam Bowers Invitational Exhibition, “Memento Mori” at Bowery Gallery in
Chelsea, June 19 – July 7, re-examines the motif of still life set in the
landscape as a vehicle for editation on the transitory nature of
experience. Using a moody, saturated palette and rich, painterly approach
Bowers depicts fish, birds, and fruit, as well as biological specimens in jars
set within landscapes possessing a sensuality evocative of 17thcentury
Neapolitan still life painting, yet imbued with a quality of timelessness that
embraces both past and contemporary experience. They are highly
personal and enigmatic works that hint at mysteries beyond the reach of
comprehension.
The stories that Bowers tells in these works are more often experienced
and felt rather than known, her intent being to “to reach the intellect
through the senses.” The paintings are filled with echoes of intuitive
meaning, evoking a sense of pathos through empathy with the creatures
she depicts, taken out of the safety of their own environments and
immersed in a liminal world of twilight hillsides, stormy seas, and fiery
infernos. The paintings reference images across diverse sources including
mythic history, literature, the history of art, and alchemy, thus merging
contemporary experience with echoes of traditions to create a timeless,
richly evocative world. Barry Nemett, writer, painter and Chair of the
Painting Department at Maryland College Institute of Art describes her
work as: “something thrillingly eerie and hard to define, by floating us into
the black, ambiguous waters of the sublime.” (for the full text of Barry
Nemett's essay click).
Bowers has exhibited her work the at International School of Art, in
Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy; The Hungarian University of Fine
Arts, in Budapest, Hungary; The Ecole Nationale d'Architecture, in Rabat,
Morocco and nationally at ARC and WMG galleries in Chicago, at the
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, St. Mary's College and was featured
in last years Annual Juried Special Exhibition at the Bowery, among other
U.S. and international venues. She has spoken on her work as a visiting
artist at The Luxun Academy of Fine Art in Shenyang, China and has
upcoming exhibits in Guiliin, China and Gubbio, Italy.
A Chicago native, Bowers is on the Art Department faculty at the University of South Carolina and also teaches in Umbria, Italy. She can be reached at:
pbvoros@sc.rr.com
her work can be seen at:
http://web.schc.sc.edu/davidvoros/Pam_Bowers.html
http://www.giotto.org/cimabue/bowers/index.html
http://dactylfoundation.org/?p=239
Gallery hours are 11 AM to 6 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. For more information contact the gallery at 646-230-6655 or info@bowerygallery.org
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