Nancy Bowen
Nancy Bowen (b. 1955) is a mixed media artist known for her eclectic mixtures of imagery and materials in both two and three dimensions. Her sculpture and drawing exist in a liminal zone between abstraction and representation and offers a poetic commentary on our quickly changing material culture. Like an artistic archeologist in this age of globalization and post-industrialization, she salvages (often disappearing) ornament and craft traditions and incorporates them into works at once whimsical and politically charged.
Bowen has been featured in solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Her work has been reviewed widely in such journals as Art in America, Artforum, Glass Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, and has won awards from Anonymous was a Woman; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York Foundation for the Arts; the MacDowell Colony; Yaddo; the Brown Foundation at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France; and the Jentel Foundation.