Paul Bowen
Artist Works
23 x 20 x 13 Wood
Artist Bio
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Paul Bowen makes earthy sculptures from found wood, sticks and scraps of metal which also incorporate tar and plaster. Circles, squares, cones, wedges, and a brawny L-shape that recalls the silhouette of a fishing boat inhabit his abstract sculptures. Several of his smaller sculptures consist of a plaster sphere from which wood structures, like simple houses, or sticks and organic debris, project out, as if emerging from a shell. His works on paper executed in vibrant red continue his exploration of the L-shape and are reminiscent of the fishing draggers from which he finds inspiration.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Paul Bowen, Drawings, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Paul Bowen, Sculpture, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton College, Castleton, VT
2007 Paul Bowen, Recent Work, ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
2005 Paul Bowen, Sculpture: 1974-2004, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH
2004 Paul Bowen: Sculpture 1974-2004, The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Paul Bowen: Recent Works, Beshèrt Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2003 Paul Bowen, Provincetown: Paper & Wood, Brick Walk Bookshop & Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
Paul Bowen, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002 Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2001 Wood and Paper, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2000 T.J. Walton Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1999 T.J. Walton Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
1998 Wood Works, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Sculpture, New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
New Work, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1997 Recent Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
The Signal Drawings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Selected Works, 1976-1996, Takara Gallery, Houston, TX
Paul Bowen, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Recent Sculpture, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 New Sculpture, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1993 A Survey Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Waterfront, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Sculpture, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1990-91 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Recent Works on Paper, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada
Vereniging Voor Het Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Te Gent (The Association of the Museum of
Contemporary Art), Ghent, Belgium
Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY
1987-85 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1986 George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1979 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 Paul Bowen and Pat de Groot:, Recent Work, Brick Walk Bookshop & Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
2006 Paul Bowen/Brian Cohen: Stern to Bow, Selected Works on Paper, Brick Walk Fine Art,
West Hartford, CT
Paul Bowen and Irèn Handschuh: Sidetracks, New Hope, PA
2001 Paul Bowen: Sculpture and Don Kimes: Painting, Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH
2000 Paul Bowen and Pat de Groot, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1997 Paul Bowen and David Shapiro, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
1996 Paul Bowen and Helen Miranda Wilson, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1987 Paul Bowen/James Hansen, East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1986 Paul Bowen -Sculpture/Jack Tworkov-Drawings, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1985 Carl Apfelschnitt, Drawings and Paintings/Paul Bowen, Drawings and Sculpture, Bayer Fine Arts,
Provincetown, MA
1983 Robert Mapplethorpe, Fashion/Head Shots/Paul Bowen, Recent Sculpture, Hardison Fine Arts Ltd.,
New York, NY
1981 Paul Bowen and Bert Yarborough, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Paul Bowen/Ken Horii, Soroban Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Free Reign, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Art on Paper, The Toyota Museum, Toyota, Japan
2007 Four Sculptors—Other Dimensions, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2005-07 ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
2006 Collage and Light, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Sculptural Elements, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
35th Anniversary Exhibition, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2005 Triage: Paul Bowen, MP Landis and Bert Yarborough Collaborations, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Sculpture, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Feast or Famine: Artists and Food, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Three, Battelle Harding Gallery, Greenfield, MA
2003 Sculpture, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2002 The Charles H. Carpenter Collection, Fifty Years of Supporting the New
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Ten Artists from Provincetown, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Paul Bowen: Sculpture, and Drawings from New York Galleries, curated by Bob Monk for Cherry Stone
Gallery, Wellfeet, MA
The Altered Landscape, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Square Roots, curated by Ladd Spiegel, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York, NY
Survey 1998, curated by Pasquale Natale and Tom McCanna, Provincetown Art Association and
Museum, Provincetown, MA
1998 Utopia, The Silas-Kenyon Gallery at the Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design, Provincetown, MA
Drawing Invitational, curated by Bob Bailey and Tom McCanna,
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
FABRICations, Yukiko Lunday Gallery, Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS continued
1998 Long Point Gallery at the Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA
Long Point Gallery at FAWC, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Long Point Gallery Tribute, Nardin Gallery, New York, NY
Artists’ Books, Invitational, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Subtext, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1997 Group Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1996 Outermost Sculpture, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Odyssey of a Collector: Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1995 New Forms from the Fine Arts Work Center: A Sculpture Show, Cape Museum of Arts, Dennis, MA
Selected Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1994 Gallery Viva, Kawasaki, Japan
Sculpture in the Garden, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Important Papers, Walker/Kornbluth Art Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ
1993 A Place in the Universe, The Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA
More Books as Art, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Ways to See, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1991 The Far Field: Six Artists in America, Zephyrus Contemporary Art/
Excellent Coast, Yokohama, Japan; Toyota Corporation, Kobe, Japan
1991 Birds as Critics: Artists" Birdhouses, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Twelve Artists, Twelve Months, E. N. S. Graphics/U.F.O. Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1990 Nature"s Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
8 Artists/8 Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Origins: Six Contemporary Sculptors, M13 Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Contemporary Provincetown, curated by Ann Wilson Lloyd, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
The Age of Pluralism, Centro di Cultura Ausoni, Rome, Italy
Group Show, Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Working in Wood, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1988 Innovations in Contemporary Sculpture, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
David and Goliath, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Sculpture on the Wall, Boston College, Boston, MA
1986 Sculpture on the Wall, curated by Larry Aldrich and Ellen O"Donnell, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
The Tar Show, Attitude Art, New York, NY
Crosscurrents, curated by Ellen O"Donnell and Helen A. Harrison, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton,
Long Island, New York, NY
1985 Myth/Culture, Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, DC
Southern Exposure, Brockton Museum, Brockton, MA
1984 Invitational Exhibition, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
Four Sculptors: Ritual and Artifact, Zabriskie Gallery, curated by James L. Reinish, New York, NY
Eight Sculptures: Two Decades, Oriel, Welsh Arts Council Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
1983 Found Objects, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 100:One Hundredth Annual Summer Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Plas Mawr,
Conwy, Wales
1976 Origins, Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, Wales
The Fall, Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, Wales, (travelling exhibition)
1974 Edinburgh Arts, Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Association of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
School of Art Museum and Gallery at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bodelwyddan Castle Trust, Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire, Wales
Central Sports Club of Japan, Chiba, Japan
The Church of Saint Mary of the Harbor, Provincetown, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
School of Art Museum and Gallery at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
Mercantile Bank of Saint Louis, MO
Meditech Corporation, Westwood, MA
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Prudential Insurance Collection, Newark, NJ
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Swiss Bank Collection, New York, NY
Town of Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
Uchidayoukou Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales
Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, Wales
COMMISSIONS
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Windrush II, wood sculpture
Whalers" Wharf, Provincetown, MA, large-format photographic installation from original collage
The Mall at Chestnut Hill, Chestnut Hill, MA, Red Fleet, White Fleet, fabric banner
Lumen Editions, Cambridge, MA, book cover for Starry, Starry Night:Provincetown’s Response to the AIDS
Epidemic by Jeanne Braham & Pamela Peterson
Provincetown Arts Press, Provincetown, MA, frontispiece for Slow Burn by Ellen Dudley
Quality Paperback Club, Qualiteria: The QPB Literary Journal, New York,NY
Weslyan University Press, book cover for Sea Room by Maria Flook
Galleria Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy, Moltiplicazione, limited edition of multiples
Uchidayoukou Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Shapeshifting, collaboration with poet Robert Lunday
Welsh Arts Council, The Fall, six drawings
AWARDS and APPOINTMENTS
2007 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1993 Sculpture Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts
1987 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1981 Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship
1979 Artist-in-Residence, Bear Mountain State Park, NY
1978 Award to Artists, Welsh Arts Council
1977-79 Hudson D. Walker Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1972-74 Hoffberger Fellow, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006 Former Fellows 1994-95 Exhibition, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center,
Provincetown, MA
2004 Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture and Drawings, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center,
Provincetown, MA
1990 The Assembled Image, curated by Paul Bowen and Jim Forsberg, Provincetown Art Association
and Museum, Provincetown, MA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008 Visiting Professor, Winter Term, Department of Studio Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Visiting Artist, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Sculpture Instructor, Summer Workshops, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
Sculpture Instructor, Great River Arts Institute, Bellows Falls, VT
2007 Visiting Sculptor, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Sculpture Instructor, Visual Arts Programs, Great River Arts Institute, Bellows Falls, VT
Sculpture Instructor, River Gallery School, Brattleboro, VT
Visiting Lecturer, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
1995-2007 Sculpture Instructor, Summer Workshop Program, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2006 Sculpture Instructor, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
1983-2006 Sculpture Instructor, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
2005 Visiting Lecturer, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
1993 Sculpture Instructor, Provincetown Art Association and Museum School
1992 Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1991 Visiting Artist, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1988 Visiting Lecturer, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Visiting Lecturer, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1987 Visiting Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
Instructor, Four Sculptors Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1984 Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1982 Visiting Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1979 Visiting Lecturer, Art Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 Award to Artists Juror, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
1993-2004 Co-founder and Project Coordinator, Artist’s Eye: Children as Curators, Provincetown Art
Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1993-95 Visual Arts Coordinator, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1993 Visual Arts Juror, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1999-Present Advisory Board Member, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1991-1995 Education Committee, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1990-1995 Collections Committee, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1990 Artists Advisory Board, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Arts Enrichment Committee, Veterans Memorial Elementary School, Provincetown, MA
1988-1990 Exhibition Committee, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1986-1989 Board of Trustees, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1979-1989 Visual Arts Committee, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
EDUCATION
1972-74 MFA, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1969-72 Diploma in Art and Design, Newport College of Art, Newport, Wales
1968-69 Prediploma Course, Chester School of Art, Chester, England