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Born 1957 Boston, Massachusetts. Known for: Figure-modern, abstraction.
David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Bowes' contemporaries include artists George Condo,... Read full biography
David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Bowes' contemporaries include artists George Condo, Keith Haring, and Jean Michel Basquiat. In the September 2002 issue of Art in America the poet... Read full biography
David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Bowes' contemporaries include artists George Condo, Keith Haring, and Jean Michel Basquiat. In the September 2002 issue of Art in America the poet Carter Ratcliff wrote:. ". Bowes practices what might be called hieroglyphic figuration. With just a few strokes of a loaded brush, he can indicate an elaborately costumed figure or the sinuous gestures of... Read full biography
David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Bowes' contemporaries include artists George Condo, Keith Haring, and Jean Michel Basquiat. In the September 2002 issue of Art in America the poet Carter Ratcliff wrote:. ". Bowes practices what might be called hieroglyphic figuration. With just a few strokes of a loaded brush, he can indicate an elaborately costumed figure or the sinuous gestures of a tropical vine. Of course, some renderings are more hieroglyphic than others. The larger the form, the more fully Bowes employs the familiar devices of figure painting. Modeling becomes a painterly caress as he gives volume to the voluptuous shape... Read full biography
David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Bowes' contemporaries include artists George Condo, Keith Haring, and Jean Michel Basquiat. In the September 2002 issue of Art in America the poet Carter Ratcliff wrote:. ". Bowes practices what might be called hieroglyphic figuration. With just a few strokes of a loaded brush, he can indicate an elaborately costumed figure or the sinuous gestures of a tropical vine. Of course, some renderings are more hieroglyphic than others. The larger the form, the more fully Bowes employs the familiar devices of figure painting. Modeling becomes a painterly caress as he gives volume to the voluptuous shape of the nude woman who, in half a dozen recent pictures, emerges from the forest shadows with a crown of flames aro... Read full biography
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Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Figure Specialty