Harrison Public Library presents “Written in Paint” by Kirsten Bowen

Exhibition is on display January 5, 2025 to January 31, 2025.
Gallery is open to the public during regular library hours.

Artist’s Statement:

The goal of my work is to incorporate some of my passions into visual art. In my early years, my father would recite poetry and my mom did needlework. We spent long afternoons on the back porch overlooking the woods practicing calligraphy. In art school I took extra lettering classes and eventually fell into early design work that involved patterning and color. It is only natural that I should be implementing landscape, lettering, and poetry in my fine art. My text based paintings are my signature series that I began over 15 years ago. More and more of the paintings include my own poems, written during the course of the creation of the art. I’m inspired by classic poetry and really enjoy the challenge of the haiku format. I’m slow to call myself a poet, and initially credited some of the works written into my paintings as “anonymous” until a gallery who moved my work encouraged me to take ownership. I wish to find kindred spirits in exhibiting my work, and hopefully bring a feeling of peace and hope to those who take notice.

About the Artist:

Kirsten Bowen is a painter and poet  who lives and works in Harrison, NY. She is a scholarship graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design, and was a gallery owner in Bexley Ohio 2004-2007.Her two solo museum exhibitions include the Coral Springs Museum of Art  in Florida, and the Evansville Museum of Arts History and Science in Indiana. Her 2 person museum exhibitions include  Capital University’s Schumacher gallery, and at the Thousand Islands Art Center ~home of the Handweaving Museum in Clayton New York.

Group exhibitions include the Farmington Museum in New Mexico.
She was the New Albany Symphony’s artist in residence  for 2007-2008 &  2017-2018.

Her work is in many corporate and private collections in the US and abroad. She is represented by the C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich CT, Apropos Showroom in New York City, the Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland OH, Marcia Evans Gallery in Columbus, OH, KHS Gallery rep in Metropolitan NYC, Paula Estey Gallery in Newburyport MA, and Art Studio Hamptons Gallery in Westhampton Beach, NY.

Kirsten has two grown sons, a four year old granddaughter, and a husband with whom she shares a dog and a home in Harrison.