My work concerns itself with color – color playing the range of atmospheric to saturation. The paintings combine the intuitive with a formal structure built with veils of color created from marks and stenciled forms to create an all-over pattern referencing the garden, natural patterns, and textiles.
The single panel square paintings address the nature of gardening, being in a garden, and looking at a garden from many different angles. Jackson Pollack once said when asked what his paintings are about, “you don’t look at a garden and ask what the garden is about.” I feel these paintings need as much explanation as that comment refers too. The paintings are to be experienced and enjoyed that’s all.
A native New Yorker Sally Bowring currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. Ms. Bowring teaches painting at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the Public Art Coordinator for the City of Richmond. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Goddard University in Vermont and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from VCU.
Bowring is the recipient of numerous awards including the Virginia Museum of Fine Art Professional Fellowship and the Theresa Pollak Visual Arts Awards 2003-2004. Her work is in many corporate and private collections, including Media General, Inc; the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond; Wheat First Foundation; and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
Since 1971 she has exhibited extensively throughout the country, including the Bronx River Art Center; Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C; ARC Gallery, Chicago; The Painting Center, New York; and The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art, Miami. Her work has been showcased internationally as well in Korea, Peru, Italy, and Canada.
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