Agora Gallery, New York City 2013
Jen Bowles' intricate abstract paintings combine tone, directionality and color together to form meditative, stately works. Bowles drops and threads her paint like Pollock, but her end product is something completely different: unified, intimately cropped, and thoughtful rather than active. She doesn't work in bold juxtaposition, but careful gradients. The work often explores the nuances of one color at a time, and while her brushstrokes are defined and assertive, they work in tandem with every other dash in the work instead of fighting for attention. Bowles' work is constantly in the pursuit of balance, something that is visible in the shifting pulses of light and dark, positive and negative space. Mathematic planes slip over and under the organic curves.. The artist also pits texture and reflectivity against each other with her preferred medium of acrylic and mixed media.
Jen Bowles is a classically trained vocalist and draws inspiration from the metters of music, as well as modern architecture and color theory.
Micro Gallery - Bakersfield.Com, 2010
"Bowles often listens to jazz music when she's painting and that sensual influence is reflected in her artwork." - Terry Derouchie
Publications - Featured Artist
2013 Bakersfield Californian
2010 Bakersfield Express
2010 Bakersfield Californian
2010 North West News Bakersfield
2008 Art Business News
2008 Arts Council of Kern Magazine
2007 Bakotopia