Awareness: Josh Bowe

Josh Bowe's painting is about the "universal human experience, the distillation of the base elements that bind us together." His portraits attempt to convey aspects of both the subjects'  and the viewers  own personality. About twelve months ago Bowe switched from acrylic to oil. HIs process is oriented around the idea that to complete a painting is an investigation, and the struggle of reconciliation and the opposing forces of representation and abstraction. He paints faces that he feel "best portray the journeys we all take along the road of life; faces that capture both the decisions we make and the decisions forced upon us by circumstance." I simply love his use of color and mark to make a figurative and expressive portrait. This is something I hope to explore in the future.