Save Yourself, by Patrick Bower As a kid, I struggled with night terrors. I would wake up in a panic, my brain churning with formless anxiety. I soon learned that getting out of bed and making a drawing that represented the sensations I was experiencing could help quiet my mind. Once it was on the page, the tension lived there, not inside me. This process of translating physical sensations into visual compositions remains at the heart of my work. It’s a way of figuring out whatever I’ve absorbed from the people and things around me: From my body to the canvas.   I usually express these sensations as figures, but I look most closely at formal considerations. How do the shapes and lines interact with each other and with the space of the canvas? Where is the push, where is the pull? When I look at these structures, can I feel it in my body? And what do these people or objects mean to me?   Touch is also important to my process. I build up layers of texture with gesso,...

  Patrick Bower has lived in New York City since 2003, but he started life in Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduating from Indiana University with a degree in English and Classical Literature, he moved to Brooklyn to pursue a career in music. He released several albums under his own name and his band’s - The World Without Magic - and toured internationally. After health issues prompted a change in lifestyle, he returned to his first passion, drawing, which gradually grew into a serious practice. He has shown work in New York and is an active member of the NYC Crit Club and The Canopy Program, where, in 2023, he works under the mentorship of artist Clare Grill. He is also a founding member of Immaterial Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective.  Pictured: Patrick Bower - Untitled - Acrylic on canvas - 27" x 21" - 2023

 

Sally Gil - Underground Mansion - Paper collage and paint on stretched canvas - 25" x 28" - 2021     My individual 2D works , while not strictly autobiographical , are imbued with my personal history and discoveries and thoughts about living in the world. I draw upon the specifics and history of imagery, location, and what responses I have at the time. I am after what I do not know, and what is beyond and behind our apparent world. My works are at once a celebration of beauty, immenseness, and myster ious organization seen in the person-made and natural world - and a mourning f or the loss that is inherent in everything. Most recently, my work responds particularly to the specific locations and architecture where it is intended to be seen , in site-specific gallery exhibitions and, more permanently, in public art. It is made through a process of decisions based on composition, intuition, and happenstance. Print media images and painted paper and elements are ar...

  Sally Gil - Oh, Meno Male - Print media collage and paint on paper - 6 1/4" x 22 1/2" - 2021  EDUCATION MFA, Hunter College of the City University of New York BA, University of California, San Diego SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023: OPEN AND SHUT, Vorderzimmer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016: MOVING FAST/CONNECTING THROUGH TIME, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT 2016: OUT OF THIS WORLD, The Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT 2015: THERE IS MORE, Project room Installation, Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY 2010: SALLY GIL WORKS ON PAPER, Solo show at 571 Projects, New York, NY 2010: UP CLOSE AND FAR AWAY, Solo Show at UNC, Charlotte, NC 2008: SALLY GIL SOLO, The Dean Bergen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022: ARTIST SAMPLER, Dean Bergen Gallery Collective, Brooklyn, NY 2022: SEVEN, 571 Projects, Stowe, VT 2021: HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE, Curated by Liz Weiss, Foley Gallery, NY 2020: EL QUE BUSCA, ENCUENTRA...Y SIGUE ECONTRANDO, Online Exhibition: White Columns, ...