Bowery Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Bowery Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Nagib Nahas “Images of the City”
For his fourth solo Bowery show, Nagib Nahas will exhibit paintings of Manhattan streets, based on photographs taken over many years around his different places of employment. Combining attentive description...More »
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Stephanie L. Franks “In Conversation”
Whether deriving inspiration from past masters, the view out the window, or an interior with still life, Stephanie Franks’s works weave together multiple threads, finding connection in the push and pull...More »
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Lynette Lombard “The Air We Breathe”
Bowery Gallery presents an exhibition of Lynette Lombard’s vibrantly expressionistic paintings. Describing the process and inspiration behind these exuberant works, the artist writes: As a perceptual...More »
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Deborah Rosenthal “Anecdote: Paintings”
Bowery present an exhibition of new paintings in oil and gouache by Deborah Rosenthal. In these pictures, imagined motifs of hilly land, architectural columns, human figures, and arrangements of jars...More »
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Dena Schutzer “The Beat Goes On”
Dena Schutzer’s fourth solo show at Bowery Gallery includes more than forty paintings that catch poignant moments of daily life in COVID-stricken NYC and Yonkers, NY. A number of paintings depict the...More »
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Anne Delaney “On Notice: Paintings and Drawings”
Bowery presents an exhibition of Anne Delaney’s recent paintings and drawings, produced over the last two years against a backdrop of social upheaval. The artist describes the tenor of the time: “The...More »
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Colleen Franca “Seen and Remembered”
Colleen Franca’s first show at Bowery includes recent paintings from Maine, Long Island and Florida, as well as Portugal and Italy – where she was an artist-in-residence – and Brooklyn, where she resides....More »
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Jeremy Long “Recent Paintings”
The gallery presents Jeremy Long’s second solo Bowery exhibition, featuring paintings of domestic life that range in scale from the epic to the intimate. The artist’s depictions of his own family fill...More »
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Mark Lewis “Tulsa Streets and Studio Fiction”
Mark Lewis’ striking images of Tulsa streets, produced in graphite on paper, blend the familiar and the unfamiliar. Complex impressions of an urban geometry – street lights, people, signs and wires – accumulate...More »
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John Goodrich “Recent Paintings: Descending Light”
John Goodrich’s recent paintings include some forty landscapes and still lifes animated by heightened color and rapid brushwork. The artist explains the title: For each motif I sought an embracing pictorial...More »
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Simon Carr “Inside the World: Scenes from City and Country”
Simon Carr’s recent paintings and drawings bring exuberant life to scenes of New York City and his family’s upstate farm. Working large-scale, the artist mixes sand into acrylic paint to build up evocatively...More »
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Judith Lambertson “Color, Form and Eye and ‘I’”
For her first solo show at Bowery, Judith Lambertson will exhibit recent studio canvases and plein air works inspired by visits to Prince Edward Island, the medieval village of Guardia Sanframondi, Italy...More »
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Thaddeus Radell “Agitation on the Acheron”
Bowery Gallery presents recent work by Thaddeus Radell, whose darkly luminous paintings evoke journeys through subconscious landscapes. From the artist’s richly layered surfaces – broadly trowelled in...More »
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Hearne Pardee “N/S/E/W”
With his most recent work, Hearbe Pardee continues to interpret the everyday landscape, working from multiple images and videos to investigate our awareness of space and time. “N/S/E/W” focuses on a neighborhood...More »
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Kamini Avril “Fables”
With her second solo exhibition of paintings at Bowery, Kamini Avril continues to explore dreamlike visions that interweave spontaneous, energized brushwork and lengthy reflection. Rather than...More »
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“Artist Choice” Exhibition
Martha Armstrong / Rita Baragona / Temma Bell / Monica Bernier Simon Carr / Glen Cebulash / Anne Delaney / Colleen Franca Stephanie Franks / John Goodrich / Janet Gorzegno Michael Louis Johnson / Lynn...More »
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Moira Bateman “Way of Water”
Bowery Gallery presents an installation of recent wax cloth assemblages by the Minneapolis-based artist Moira Bateman. Inspired by the microscopic study of lake sediments, the artist employs a variety...More »
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“Midsummer Salon” Exhibition
“Midsummer Salon,” an exhibition of works by members of the Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, celebrates the traditions and concerns they share with the artists of Bowery Gallery in the gallery’s...More »
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Esmé Thompson “New Paintings”
Noted for their bold patterning and dynamic color, Esmé Thompson’s paintings and multi-panel wall reliefs attest to a lifelong interest in decorative designs, ranging from Islamic textiles and tiles to...More »
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Monica Bernier “An American Desertscape and an East Coast Suburban Swimming Pool”
With her second exhibition at Bowery, Monica Bernier builds on a familar idiom of abstract cut-outs to re-create two very different personal experiences: a 2017 roadtrip through the national parks of the...More »
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Martha Armstrong “Recent Paintings”
With her most recent paintings, Martha Armstrong continues her abstracted investigations of a Vermont woodlot, capturing it in robust shapes and vividly heightened colors. “A landscape so familiar,” writes...More »
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David Bradford “Recent Paintings”
Bowery presents new work by David Bradford, whose recent paintings are executed in acrylic and burlap on panel. The artist describes how these highly inventive works are rooted in observations of real...More »
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Tony Serio “Urban Nature”
Bowery Gallery presents an exhibition of landscapes by Tony Serio, whose latest paintings focus on nature in the urban setting. These works, with their exceptionally rich darks, reflect the artist’s recent...More »
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Lynn Kotula “Table Talk”
In her third solo show at Bowery, Lynn Kotuka continues to explore the still life, using lively arrangements of objects — pitchers, shells, squash, cloth, cup and pie pan — to explore the conversations...More »
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Younghee Choi Martin “Recent Paintings”
Bowery present large narrative paintings by Younghee Choi Martin, who revisits Aeschylus’s Oresteia trilogy in a series of fiercely reworked compositions. Vibrant in color and forceful in drawing, these...More »
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Michael Louis Johnson “Two Trains Running, Continued: Recent Paintings”
Bowery presents Michael Louis Johnson’s second exhibition with the gallery. The artist’s recent work includes self-portraits and cityscapes produced in oil paint and oil stick on paper and canvas. Almost...More »
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Diane Drescher “New Paintings / New Mexico”
Diane Drescher’s third show at Bowery presents recent paintings inspired by the artist’s trips to New Mexico, where her painting sites included the ruins of a seventeenth-century mission and pueblo in...More »
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Adrianne Lobel “Mobile Homes”
Adrianne Lobel’s third exhibition with Bowery features large canvases reworked from a series of plein air studies she produced last summer in mobile home parks. The artist’s most recent work reflects a...More »
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Maura Doern Danko “New Paintings”
Bowery Gallery present an exhibition of recent work by Maura Doern Danko, whose paintings combine personal motifs in diaristic still lifes and imagined scenarios. Captured in loose, fluid brushstrokes,...More »
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Janet Gorzegno “Souls at Dawn”
In her fifth solo exhibition at Bowery, Janet Gorzegno explores the liminal and transitional with a series of jewel-like gouaches of the human head. Inspired in part by traditions of sacred icon painting,...More »
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Rita Baragona “Cadences”
Rita Baragona’s paintings search out rhythmic and luminous cadences in ocean, landscape, and flower paintings and drawings. Seeking to merge inner responses and outer existence, the artist captures her...More »
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Naomi Nemtzow “New Work: Close to Home”
Naomi Nemtzow returns to painting directly from observation with a series of 15 plein air paintings of her quiet Brooklyn neighborhood. Combining oil paint with pencil drawing, the artist vividly captures...More »
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Karen A. Davie “What Alice Found There”
For her second show at Bowery Gallery, Karen A. Davie has painted shapes and characters from a fantastical, personal realm that would bewilder Alice in Wonderland herself. What is Davie’s character...More »
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Dena Schutzer “Wash and Fold”
Dena Schutzer’s third solo show at Bowery includes paintings and etchings that highlight the embrace of life in a Yonkers laundromat – what the artist calls “the intimate displays of the basic struggle...More »
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Deborah Rosenthal “Falling Uphill: Paintings”
Falling Uphill: Paintings includes recent works in oil on linen by Rosenthal, and also a group of some twenty-odd gouaches on paper in which the painter presents new themes and techniques. Cross-hatched,...More »
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David Mollett and Jessie Hedden “Languedoc, Paintings from France”
Bowery Gallery presents an exhibition of thirty paintings by Alaska painters David Mollett and Jessie Hedden. Working in oil on canvas and acrylic on paper, the artists produced these paintings in 2017...More »
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Jeremy Long Exhibition
Jeremy Long’s first solo exhibition at Bowery features large paintings of figures in domestic scenes, along with a number of small and medium-sized preparatory studies for them. As intense studies of subject...More »
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Rachel Siporin “Homage to the Happenings: The Artist as Performer and Audience”
In a series of multiple plate color etchings, Rachel Siporin celebrates the collaborative spirit and energy of the 1960’s Downtown NYC artists’ community. Referencing the period photographs of Robert R....More »
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Suzanne Guppy “Poetic Moments”
The Bowery Gallery presents Suzanne Guppy’s first exhibition of paintings with the gallery. These paintings depict people and places from her life. The paintings in this exhibit are small, compressed,...More »
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Esmé Thompson Exhibition
In Esmé Thompson’s paintings and multipanel wall reliefs the use of color and pattern create a dynamic and engaging viewing experience. Colorful and bold, the paintings attest to a lifelong interest in...More »
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Diane Drescher “Urban Landscapes: Off the Grid”
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Martha Armstrong “East to West: Recent Paintings”
This year Armstrong has had one person shows at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, and at The Oxbow Gallery, Northampton,Massachusetts. She has been in group shows with Seven On Site in Pennsylvania...More »
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Phyllis Floyd and Megan Williamson “Improvisations: Works on Paper”
Bowery Gallery announces Improvisation, a two-person exhibition presenting the watercolors of Phyllis Floyd and the ink drawings of Megan Williamson. While their work differs considerably in style and...More »
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Rita Baragona “The Eye’s Mind”
Rita Baragona has been painting from nature for her entire career. This work is the culmination of several years of wide open experimentation while still working in the canon of perceptual painting. Baragona’s...More »
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Naomi Nemtzow “New Work: Subway Series”
In her 10th exhibit at Bowery Gallery, Naomi Nemtzow shows new drawings and collages. In the current body of work, Nemtzow goes underground, taking her longstanding exploration of the urban environment...More »
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Christopher S. Dolan “Solving Yesterday’s Problems Today”
Often based on rapid drawings of the underlying structure of master works, Dolan’s improvisational paintings reflect his own direct visual experiences. Though simple in its elements, each image unfolds...More »
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Jessie Hedden “Recent Drawings and Paintings”
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David Mollett “Recent Paintings and Woodcuts”
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Rachel Siporin “Color Woodcuts”
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Karen A Davie “Conversations: Recent Paintings”
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Nagib Nahas “Street Views”
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“Bowery Gallery 23rd Annual Juried Show 2014”
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“Unfolding Landscape” Exhibition
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Dave Gloman “Recent Paintings”
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Janet Gorzegno “Old Souls”
Painter Janet Gorzegno’s fourth show at the Bowery Gallery features new works in gouache on paper that invent for contemplation glimpses of the human—her recurring motif is the human head, which appears...More »
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Marylou Shuck “The Dog Park—Man & Beast”
In this work the outdoor space is “the Dog Park”. Intrigued by the visual patterns created by the movements of people and dogs together, she began to explore their relationships, and the space and common...More »
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Iris Osterman “New Work”
In this new body of work images of the natural world are transformed with an energetic hand into what the artist calls “A meditation on the inner landscape”. On view will be paintings on canvas and a group...More »
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Richard La Presti “Recent Paintings”
La Presti loves crowds at the beach, and most of the works have lots of bathers; he is a expert at realizing multifigured compositions. You will recognize these figures from your trips to the beach. People...More »
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John Goodrich “23 Encounters with Color: Landscapes, Still Lifes, Figure Paintings”
The artist states: Painting for me is primarily a visual experience, much as music is an aural one. In any painting, color imparts more than atmosphere; it gives weight to movement. The precedents set...More »
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John Bradford “Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes”
“Here is the baby Moses, all quick pink daubs for arm and face, a blue cone for the servant bending over the tarred basket, lithe orange flourishes for bulrushes, and a gray column for Pharaoh’s imperious...More »
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Betsy B. Davidson “Choice and Serendipity: Paintings, Collages and Assemblages”
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Lynette Lombard “Night and Day”
Lynette Lombard’s recent paintings of rural southern Spain and Illinois embrace baroque curvilinear rhythms. The theme of night captures simplified moonlit forms that evoke mysterious presences. Each painting,...More »
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Jane Culp “Earthquake Country”
The exhibition is named EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY. These oil and watercolor paintings originate from the steep mountain area along the Eastern Sierra Nevada and from deep within the dry badlands of the Anza Borrego...More »
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Anne Delaney “Alone, Together”
These vivid interpretations of natural and urban landscapes place the figure—solitary or paired—in familiar settings such as backyards, beach picnics, and skyscrapers. The captured moments of a daily walk...More »
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Ian Tornay “Paintings”
Tornay’s work has been discussed in The New Republic and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer for an exhibit at the Riverrun Gallery in Lambertville NJ, Victoria Donohoe...More »
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Robert Robbins “Frondescence Paintings”
Robbins began this series of paintings seven years ago, and has shown these works throughout the country, but this is his first showing of this body of work in New York City. These large paintings are...More »
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Roger Barnes “Housepainting”
Roger Barnes has always had an interest in and a connection to houses and architecture, both professionally and personally. He became interested in houses as a subject for this series of paintings while...More »
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Evelyn Twitchell “Recent Work”
In these new paintings, clay reliefs, prints and drawings, the artist continues to explore elements of the natural world. Combining both representational and abstract language, Twitchell’s works range...More »
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Temma Bell Exhibition
The show consists of portraits of her family and pets, still lifes, farm animals and landscapes of her family's farm in the Catskills of New York State. Temma lives and paints on their farm in the town...More »
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Barbara Goodstein "Building, Figures, Trees"
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Nicole Maynard-Sahar "Recent Paintings"
Ranging in size from small to tiny, these abstracted landscapes are constructed of colored dots, staking out a point intriguingly between Pointillist painting and digital technologies. Textural variations...More »
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Christine Hartman "Recent Work"
This is Hartman’s third show at bowery. Her recent work encompasses the still life and figure and explores the complex dialogue between vision, nature and art. Hartman’s paintings and studies draw from...More »
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David Bradford "Recent Paintings"
The works in the current show include landscape paintings done in Montana, California and upstate New York, where he currently lives. Bradford writes, "While the main focus of my work over the last 15...More »
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Younghee Choi Martin "Myth of Orpheus"
There are over a dozen paintings ranging in size from mural scale, "Here is the Meadow Where We Started," (74 x 112 in.) to a more intimate size, "On the Edge of Light," (12 x 21 in.) Younghee Choi Martin's...More »
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Hearne Pardee "Visual Resources"
Hearne Pardee builds images that emphasize the complexity of the perceived world. He continues to combine painting from observation with colored paper collage, while opening up new avenues of investigation...More »
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Lynn Kotula "Animated Conversations"
Lynn Kotula’s paintings draw you in with their apparent simplicity and directness. At first glance they appear to simply concern themselves with objects on a tabletop, and the tabletop itself, carved...More »
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Tony Serio "Hudson River Landscapes"
The Westside Highway runs along the Hudson River, separating a narrow strip of parkland called "the greenway" from the rest of Manhattan. A ramp takes you down to the park where the dark shadow of the...More »
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Diane Drescher "The High Line"
Straddling the line between representation and abstraction, Drescher creates monumental compositions from the stacked, rectangular forms of buildings hugging the old rail line and arched elevated walkways,...More »
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Martha Armstrong "Recent Paintings"
Martha Armstrong has had many one-person and group shows in the United States and Italy. She has received grants from Smith College, a residency at Hollins University, and at the Camargo Foundation in...More »
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Mark Lewis "Tulsa Streets: Collages and Paintings"
Mark Lewis constructs "Tulsa Streets" with paper and graphite. He works perceptually on site constructing collages over a period of time, discovering, realizing and compressing the experiences of each...More »
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Pam Bowers "Memento Mori"
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...More »
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David Voros "Triumph of Innocence"
Features four monumental scale paintings which re-investigate monumental-scale narrative painting in a personal and autobiographical context. Voros presents a sequential narrative described in four large-scale...More »
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Janice Nowinski "Recent Paintings"
Janice Nowinski has never shied from confronting the past—her investigations have ranged from Old Master works to the tradition of painting the still life—but in her newest body of work she risks a more...More »
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Stepanie Franks "Locked into Place by Line, Form and Color"
Each painting of Stephanie Franks might be compared to a journey, a voyage of discovery. The journey begins as paint is applied. Ahead lies a maze of infinite possibilities. Marks are made, points of reference...More »
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Rita Baragona "The Closer I look"
Rita Baragona explores the dance of perception in her paintings and sketchbook pages. The closer she looks, the more complex the process. For her, it is not enough to be an eye. The eye only gathers...More »
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Naomi Nemtzow "New Urban Landscape"
Naomi Nemtzow shows new paintings and collages in her 9th exhibit at Bowery Gallery. In this body of work, Nemtzow returns to the urban environment with paintings recording her observations of elevated...More »
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Esmé Thompson "New paintings and Collages"
In Esmé Thompson’s art luminosity and rich patterning engage the eye and the mind. Colorful and bold, these objects attest to a considered and lifelong interest in the decorative designs as diverse as...More »
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Deborah Rosenthal "Journeys and Topologies"
Several kinds of invented compositions are featured in the exhibition. In the small paintings of the Journeys series, Rosenthal inscribes human figures within linear armatures on opaquely painted grounds....More »
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Group Show
The exhibition will include some forty-odd works—one work per artist—on formats no wider than 24 inches. With the majority of the works oil paintings, the show also extends to work in media such as acrylic...More »
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Grier Torrence "Still Rowing"
Grier has exhibited in solo shows in New York City including at 55 Mercer Street Gallery. This his first one person show in New York in fifteen years. Among other places where his work has been shown in...More »
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Nagib Nahas "Residential Landscapes"
For his first solo show at Bowery Gallery, Nagib Nahas is exhibiting a series of paintings entitled Residential Landscapes. Most of the works are of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, NY where the artist resides....More »
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Adrianne Lobel "Broad Daylight"
Adrianne Lobel, an artist best known as the stage designer for Nixon in China, An American Tragedy at the Met: Passion, A Year with Frog and Toad and The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway and The Hard Nut...More »
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Dena Schutzer "Recent Paintings and Drawings"
The exhibition will consist of recent drawings and oil paintings that vividly reconstruct the rhythms of daily urban life with gestural brushwork and heightened color. In these nearly two dozen works,...More »
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Robert Patrick "Skins"
SKINS 'Painted canvas tarps pinned to walls through metal grommets, my SKINS are hunting trophies from a subconscious planet'. On this 'subconscious planet' I dream the self melts away and the world is...More »
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Chris Kienke "The Armada"
Kienke's current paintings are from a series titled, The Armada. This series of paintings reflect his interest in nautical history and with it the spread of power and the influence of civilizations across...More »
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Ruth Bernard "A New Start-Landscapes"
As the name of the show indicates, the artist will be exhibiting recent landscape paintings, a subject she has neglected over the last few years. The new work has been made possible by the acquisition...More »
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Deborah Kahn "Paintings"
Kahn's paintings are physically dense works that are labored over for weeks and months at a time. Through an investigation of form, she structures space and weaves color to create a powerful and emotive...More »
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Lynette Lombard "New Paintings"
Lynette Lombard's new work focuses on expansive views of the Spanish and Midwestern landscape. Each painting presents multiple points of view while maintaining sensations of rising, falling and twisting...More »
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Robert Jessel "New Directions"
His recent figurative oil paintings have taken on a richer textural feeling as well as more depth of color to convey the “eternal elements”, and in this show landscape is the primary subject. His evolving...More »
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David Mollet and Jessie Hedden "Alaska Abstractions and Landscape"
David Mollett and Jessie Hedden are pleased to announce an exhibition at Bowery Gallery in Chelsea, opening Thursday, January 6, 2011 and continuing through January 29th. Mollett and Hedden are painters...More »
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John Bradford "Painting the Biblical Narrative"
These works capture the beauty of the spare text of the Old Testament stories through a process of relentlessly reworking the entire surface of the painting with a full brush until composition and interpretation...More »
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Martha Armstrong "Vermont Landscapes"
Martha Armstrong will show recent Vermont landscapes at Bowery Gallery November 2 to November 27, 2010. This is her sixth one-person exhibition at Bowery. She graduated from Smith College and The Rhode...More »
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Iris Osterman "Paintings"
Streams, falls, rock formations and forests are the starting point of Osterman’s paintings. Working with a restricted palette in oil and encaustic, the images come from the land around her home in Massachusetts,...More »
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Evelyn Twitchell "Drawn from Nature"
Bowery Gallery presents Drawn from Nature, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and reliefs by Evelyn Twitchell. In this new body of work, veering between abstraction and representation, Twitchell arrives...More »
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J. Michael Moorse Exhibition
[Image: J. Michael Moorse "14th Street and 8th Avenue, Oil on Canvas" 6 x 5 ft. (detail)] More »
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Rita Baragona "Luminesence" and Tony Serio "Northern Manhattan"
[Image: Tony Serio "Audubon Ballroom Evening" (2009) Oil on Linen 36 x 48 in.] More »
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Christine Hartman "Recent Work"
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Anne Delaney Exhibition
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"Juried Show" Exhibition
The Bowery's 17th annual juried competition for 2009 will be juried by the painter Paul Resika.More »
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"Abstract Reality in Color" Exhibition
[Image: LL Milton "Trucker's Paradise" (2009) Oil on Canvas]More »
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"Landscape-cut-Fast Forward" Exhibition
[Image: Peter Surroca "Self-Portrait" (2008)Oil on Linen, 17 x 23 in.]More »
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Janet Gorzegno "Soul Journey"
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Walter Strach Recent "Paintings: A Landscape Vernacular"
Walter Strach’s way of working is to sit down on the floor in the back of his van, painting directly from the motif. To an extent, this isolates him; he does not intrude into the landscape he is painting....More »
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Janice Nowinski "Recent Paintings"
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Esme Thompson Exhibition
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Jesse Hedden & David Mollet Exhibition
[Image: David Mollett "Creek Above Galbraith Lake" (2006) oil on canvas 48 x 36 in.] More »
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Small Works Exhbition
Bowery Gallery, with Blue Mountain & Prince Street galleries, invite you to a Small Works show of Bowery artists and friends. All drawings & paintings are $50 or $100. Cash & carry. Cider...More »
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Nicole Maynard "Images of Optimism"
[Image: Nicole Maynard "Winter Landscape l" (2008) Oil on Panel 14 x 18 in.]More »
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Naomi Nemtzow "Paintings and Collages"
[Image: Naomi Nemtzow "View from Pier #3" (2008) Oil on Canvas 14 x 18 in.]More »
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Marvin Gates "Et in Arcadia Ego"
[Image: Marvin Gates "Death" (2004) Oil on Canvas, 11 x 14 in.]More »
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Juried Show 2008
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Martin Mugar "Ekstasis of Repetition: Oil & Wax Paintings"
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Aaron Brooks "Paintings"
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Robert Jessel Exhibition