Kelie Bowman
In Preparation for your Departure
October 13th – November 12th 2006
Opening Reception Friday October 13th, 7-11pm
Kelie Bowman’s watercolor paintings engage the imagination with surreal solutions to our everyday problems of heartbreak, conflict, and despair. In her world, the evil-doers are back-stabbing groups of friends, quarreling family members, and ex-lovers who all get what they deserve in the end. Some battle out their differences by uprooting trees and fencing, while others are taken care of by house-headed heroines who use their chimneys to smoke out the enemy, leaving only a distant memory in their wake.
The paintings have a warm and tender color palate which allows the subtle humor and violence to creep into them unexpectedly, adding a razor sharp edge to their gentle nature. The notion of home is an underlying theme throughout, where a person or merely a feeling replaces “home” as a physical space and becomes one’s foundation in our increasingly transient society.
Kelie Bowman hails from Florida and lives and works in Brooklyn, where she is co-founder of Cinders Gallery. She received a BFA at the University of Florida, was a founding member of the Cloud Seeding Circus, and gave Bike Tours in Munich, Germany one summer.
