Noah Bowman

The paintings I create are expressions of gestural spontaneity and formal deconstruction of the canvas. I’m most interested in each moment or fragment of the canvas being a sensation of losing or finding oneself in a space of metaphysical or existential sub-consciousness. My practice is devoted to studying the body’s movement or layout beyond the conventional pictorial planes, defined by layer upon layer of paint.

The act of painting, as I know, is reflected and studied through metaphysical instances of existence and absence, and questions the sensations we feel as humans through color and form. I like to critique relevant cultural discourse such as consciousness, sensations, stereotypes, clichés, rhetorical statements, ideals and beauty in my paintings. The figurative-abstract or “fabstract” style is a deconstruction of still and moving figurative renderings. I feel that through abstracting the figure, I am distorting the lens of normality much like these discourses abstract our perception of normal.

BFA, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, 2010

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Re:position, Havana Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2015
Coma-Imbalance, Lumen Espace Galerie, Vancouver, BC, 2012
Boulevard Days, Arts-Off-Main, Vancouver, BC, 2010
Sports Un-conscious, Tidemark Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC, 2010

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
ART-MAP Ponte Lima, Portugal, 2016
Fortaleza International Art Biennial, Brazil, 2015
Golden Brush Painting Competition, Vancouver, BC, 2014
Art Bomb Auction, West Coast/Vancouver, BC, 2014
Air: Discovery, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, 2014
Art Battle 83, Fan Club, Vancouver, BC, 2013
International Mail Art Exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, BC, 2013
Grand Opening, Fort Langley Studio, Fort Langley, BC, 2013
Eastside Culture Crawl, Octopus Studios, Vancouver, BC, 2012
Paint Vancouver Red Charity Art Festival, Red Galleria, Vancouver, BC, 2010
Golden Brush Painting Competition, Elliot Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2010
Emily Carr Grad Art & Design Exhibition, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, 2010
Sport Re-Imagined, Leigh Square Art Gallery, Port Coquitlam, BC, 2010
Skulp-tur Garden, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC, 2010
Embedded, Internal Media Show, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC, 2010
Winter Salon, Emily Carr University,...