September 06 - October 12, 2019

Astrid Bowlby: Sample(d)(r) at Towson University

Astrid Bowlby makes drawings, prints, sculptures, and installations. For her Towson University exhibition, she is presenting an on-going project in which she makes pairs of objects. The materials for each pair vary widely and the objects themselves have various names: painting, drawing, sculpture, pillow, picture frame, poster, photograph, vase of flowers. While each object in a pair is very similar to the other, they are not precisely the same. There is no original, really. They are samples of each other. Bowlby has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships for works on paper and sculpture/installation as well as a Leeway Award for Excellence and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She has exhibited her work in many venues across the United States and her work is in numerous collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the New York Public Library; and the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper, NJ. Bowlby recently completed a 700 square-foot mural for the Pennsylvania Convention Center. She is represented by Gallery Joe, Philadelphia and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston and currently divides her time between Philadelphia, PA and Brooks, ME.