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David Dirrane Bowes

David Dirrane Bowes (Born 1957) is active/lives in New York, Massachusetts.  David Bowes is known for Figure-modern, abstraction.

David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Bowes' contemporaries include artists George Condo, Keith Haring, and Jean Michel Basquiat.

In the September 2002 issue of Art in America the poet Carter Ratcliff wrote:
"....Bowes practices what might be called hieroglyphic figuration. With just a few strokes of a loaded brush, he can indicate an elaborately costumed figure or the sinuous gestures of a tropical vine. Of course, some renderings are more hieroglyphic than others. The larger the form, the more fully Bowes employs the familiar devices of figure painting. Modeling becomes a painterly caress as he gives volume to the voluptuous shape of the nude woman who, in half a dozen recent pictures, emerges from the forest shadows with a crown of flames around her head. Among this woman's distant ancestors are the muscular figures that populate Willia   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2624 characters.]  Artist bio

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