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\nARTIST TO WATCH<\/p>\n
\nARTIST TO WATCH<\/p>\n
Paul Bowen creates found-object sculptures from materials he has scavenged along the beaches of Cape Cod, where he lived and worked for 30 years, and the rivers and dams of Vermont and New Hampshire. His work lays bare a deep sense of place and a phenomenal understanding of the passage of time. His materials, mostly man-made in origin, are worn, battered, and aged when he finds them washed ashore or in the basement of an old house. Bowen crafts these bits and pieces into sculptures that embody both the new and the old, the now and the past, humanity weathered by nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is constantly adding to, and selecting from, his extensive stockpile of rusted metal, notched planks of wood, broken barrel staves, frayed rope, and other marine detritus,\u201d writes 2018 Artist to Watch Guest Curator Danny Lichtenfeld. \u201cNeither representational nor figurative, Bowen\u2019s work is formal, additive, and abstract\u2014but not without meaning. Each sculpture is rich with associations, because the materials emanate their history and purpose. Bowen\u2019s works have a talismanic energy beyond their formal beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Artists to Watch 2018” is a survey of contemporary Vermont artists that appears as special features in <\/em>Vermont Art Guide #6 and #7 and in a two-part exhibition at the Vermont Arts Council.<\/em><\/p>\n ABOUT ARTISTS TO WATCH<\/a> | GET THE MAGAZINE<\/a> | EXHIBITION DETAILS<\/a><\/p>\n Each issue of <\/em>Vermont Art Guide has over a hundred places to see art around the state. The full-color, printed magazine has artist and venue profiles as well as articles and news about Vermont Art. Our goal is to document and share the state’s incredible art scene. SUBSCRIBE TODAY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In 2018, Bowen continues to make sculptures built from rust-stained wood collected from Cape Cod beaches and river banks near his home in southern Vermont. From March 15th to May 20th, 2018, a major work constructed from oars is on exhibit at The Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, Massachusetts as part of \u201cPreserving The Very Nature of Cape Cod.\u201d A commissioned group of table-top-sized sculptures will be shown in \u201cOn Edge\u201d at The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut from May 20th, 2018 to January 13th, 2019. Bowen\u2019s work can be seen in Vermont at BigTown Gallery in Rochester.<\/p>\n Each issue of <\/em>Vermont Art Guide has over a hundred places to see art around the state. The full-color, printed magazine has artist and venue profiles as well as articles and news about Vermont Art. Our goal is to document and share the state’s incredible art scene. “Artists to Watch 2018” is a survey of contemporary Vermont artists that appears as special features in <\/em>Vermont Art Guide #6 and #7 and in a two-part exhibition at the Vermont Arts Council.<\/em><\/p>\n ABOUT ARTISTS TO WATCH<\/a> | GET THE MAGAZINE<\/a> | EXHIBITION DETAILS<\/a> Originally from Wales, Paul Bowen calls Vermont home now, but continues to teach and work in Provincetown, where he lived for 30 years. A recipient of a Gottlieb Foundation Grant, and numerous others, he was a Fellow at Provincetown\u2019s Fine Arts Work Center from 1977 to 1979. His work is in many private and public collections including The Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/aspe-by-paul-bowen.jpg\")
<\/p>\nBowen crafts these bits and pieces into sculptures that embody both the new and the old, the now and the past, humanity weathered by nature.<\/h2>\n
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