Katherine Bowling Exhibition
DC Moore Gallery
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Katherine Bowling’s recent paintings focus on the subtle luminosity and evocative power of the everyday landscape. She captures ephemeral moments– rustling foliage, rippling water, shifting shadows, and flickering sunlight– while simultaneously communicating the enduring presence of our natural surroundings. Eschewing the dramatic and exotic, Bowling paints stands of trees, the sky, underbrush, fields, and remote stretches of road. Her work conveys serenity tinged with hints of mystery in the heavy orb of a full moon, low hanging fog, or tangled branches. Speaking about her interest in conveying mood and memory, Bowling reveals, “I realize that I am more interested in depicting a psychological space... fleeting images that you might see when you close your eyes right before you go to sleep. I choose landscape because it is a universal experience.” This longstanding commitment to subject matter is paralleled in Bowling’s relationship to her process and medium. She has evolved a unique method of working in which she applies oil paint to a ground created by layering spackle on wood panel. This surface treatment lends the work a dense, temporal quality that furthers the suggestion of atmosphere and introspection in her work.
[Image: Katherine Bowling "Central Park" (2009) oil on spackle on wood 48.5 x 36 in.]
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Schedule
from April 22, 2010 to May 28, 2010