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Katherine BowlingLarge Painting "Red Sky" Oil & Spackle on Wood Katherine Bowling American Modern1988
1988
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About the Item
Katherine Bowling (American, b. 1955)
Oil on spackle on wood
1988
Hand signed, titled and dated verso,
Dimensions: 48"h x 48"w
Provenance: From an Important Private Collection, NYC; bears gallery label from Blum Helman Gallery, NYC
Notes/Literature: Exhibited: "Earth and Sky: Recent Paintings by Katherine Bowling, Joan Nelson and Ellen Phelan", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College 1992
Katherine Bowling (born 1955, Washington, D.C.) is a modernist painter known for her layered landscape paintings that draw inspiration from nature in the Hudson Valley.
Katherine Bowling grew up in Tidewater, Virginia. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978.
Bowling's first New York show, as well as her first solo exhibition, was in 1987.
Bowling's works tend to be luminous landscape paintings that often feature woods and fields as well as roads. Many of her paintings are based on her photographs of woods and fields surrounding and in Schoharie County, where she rents a house. As Molly O'Neill notes in an essay on Bowling and her work, this area is "fifty miles northwest of the vistas that inspired the Hudson River School painters in the mid-1800s."
Bowling focused in particular on the imagery of roads for the theme of her exhibition at Greenberg Van Doren, Divide. As the title implies, writes Lilly Wei in the exhibition's accompanying catalog, Bowling views the roads as "abstract marks in the landscape that divide and order space." Even with roads she has often traveled, Bowling finds something new on closer inspection that alters her perception of the familiar and mundane. Bowling explains that the roads "function as a metaphor for memory and displacement."
In 2001, Bowling exhibited a number of seascape paintings. In her essay on the exhibition, art historian and critic Nancy Princenthal writes that, far from being an aberration from Bowling's typically home-based scenes, the ocean paintings are "a return to childhood memories and life long inclinations. A native of Virginia, she spent her first summers at the Atlantic shore and on the Chesapeake Bay."
Primarily, however, Bowling's works focus on capturing the play of light and shadow. Art critic Eleanor Heartney notes that "Her paintings, like those of Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir, focus on the ephemeral moment and the fleeting impression, conjuring the flicker of sunlight through the trees, the shifting shadows of early evening, the reflections of clouds and foliage glancing across the rippling surface of a lake."
They have a luminist quality to them.
O'Neill argues that Bowling additionally "has an innate sense of abstraction and she ranges happy as an uncaged chicken, pecking elements from the Impressionists' obsession with light; from modern photography; and the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock."
Bowling is influenced by the use of light in the paintings of European Romantics such as J. M. W. Turner and John Constable as well as by the later work of George Inness: Her paintings also recall landscapes by Claude Lorraine, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Camille Corot.
Bowling is known for her use of spackle. She uses a long process of layering and sanding to create the "back-lit" effect found in her paintings.
First, the paintings begin as a photograph which she typically takes near her rented house in the Hudson Valley. Then, she uses these photographs, which serve as her "preliminary drawings," to aid in the painting process. She also paints from memory and direct observation. Bowling paints on square panels of plywood. Bowling considers rectangular pieces to be too horizontal and rife of implications already of landscapes and horizons. She sometimes paints on one of these square and sometimes paints on several square panels together. The seams between these adjoined panels are left visible. Next, Bowling applies layers of spackle. O'Neill remarks that "Inspired, perhaps, by her day job of painting houses, [Bowling] turned to more industrial media: damp vinyl spackle, a building compound that is applied to wooden panels to create a matte, fresco-like surface. Thinned oil pigments are poured, allowed to dry, and then the Sisyphean task of sanding begins." Initial layers generally correspond with the color of the light—varying from pinks, golds, blues, and oranges. Through this layering and sanding, she creates a luminous quality in her landscapes.
Despite rigorous sanding, air bubbles within the spackle layers are revealed occasionally on the surface. Rather than disguise them, Bowling integrates them. Heartney writes that Bowling "allows these irregularities to become part of the painting so that the viewer's perception of the play of light and shadow across the image cannot be separated from an awareness of surface itself."
In later stages of painting, Bowling stands above panels to throw, dribble, and splatter paint with a hair dryer, recalling the techniques of Abstract Expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock.
Awards and honors
1991 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1989 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1988 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship
Notable public collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, CA
Fisher Landau Center, New York, NY
Select exhibitions
2025 PS122 Gallery Lower East Side, New York
2022 Katherine Bowling: Trees Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York
2013 Woods, Lovely Dark and Deep. DC Moore Gallery Chelsea NY
Featuring: Eric Aho, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Dozier Bell, Jake Berthot, Katherine Bowling, Charles Burchfield, Mary Frank, Noriko Furunishi, April Gornik, Marsden Hartley, Daniel Heidkamp, David Hilliard, Mark Innerst, Max Jansons, Sissel Kardel, Whitfield Lovell, Liz Markus, Chris Martin, Duane Michals, Joan Nelson, Fairfield Porter, Lucas Reiner, Claire Sherman, Chuck Webster, Andrew Wyeth
2010 "Katherine Bowling: Moments of Grace," DC Moore Gallery, New York
2010 Spring Prints, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art Soho. Artists on show: Barbara Schwartz,
Chris Costan, Ford Crull, Gregory Crane, Jenny Hankwitz, Judith Linhares, Katherine Bowling, Lisa Breslow, Marc Katano, Margaret Neill, Mary Jo Vath, Robert Janz, Shingo Francis, Susan Wanklyn, Valentina DuBasky
2009 VAN STRAATEN GALLERY, Denver, CO
2007 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2006 David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
2005 Katherine Bowling: Paintings, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004 Katherine Bowling: Divide, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Katherine Bowling: Land to Sea Joseph Helman Gallery New York, NY
1997 Trio of Landscape Artists: Katherine Bowling, April Gornik, Wade Hoefer," David 1997 Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
1996 Katherine Bowling, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Katherine Bowling: Point of View, The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
1992 Katherine Bowling: New Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Katherine Bowling: Drawings, Blum Helman, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Katherine Bowling:Paintings, Blum Helman, New York, NY
1988 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Albright-Knox Members Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- Creator:Katherine Bowling (1955, American)
- Creation Year:1988
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38216707922
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