The sea is so wide, and my boat is so small
2017
brush, ink, marker, and glitter on paper
30 x 38 inches

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Astrid Bowlby at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
"Light" reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Astrid Bowlby on SNAG
Astrid Bowlby at the Woodmere Museum
Astrid Bowlby installation acquired for West Collects 2012
Astrid Bowlby at University of Southern Maine’s Gorham Art Gallery
Alyssa Greenberg reviews All Black on the artblog
Astrid Bowlby at The Kimmel Center
Sample(d)(r) reviewed on The Artblog
Astrid Bowlby in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Annette Monnier reviews Sample(d)(r) for Philadelphia City Paper
Astrid Bowlby, Emily Brown and Mia Rosenthal at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Astrid Bowlby: When the Shadow is Not Your Shadow at Arcadia University
Astrid Bowlby reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Astrid Bowlby’s conversation pieces at Arcadia University Art Gallery
Astrid Bowlby "That Music Always Round Me" at the Pennsylvania Convention Center
Opportunity to view Astrid Bowlby's Pennsylvania Convention Center installation

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ASTRID BOWLBY

Astrid Bowlby is a 2012 winner of West Collects, acquisitions by the West Collection. Bowlby is also a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for works on paper, four fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program grant in New York. Her installation Everything, an ongoing drawing project, is currently on view at SEI Investments, West Collection, in Oaks, PA.

Bowlby's recent exhibitions include Sample(d)(r) at Gallery Joe, On the Mark: Contemporary Works on Paper, The Baltimore Museum of Art, This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy, and Selections from C.R. Ettinger Studio, 2000-2010, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings from Durer to Doig, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Snag, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. Astrid Bowlby lives and works in Philadelphia.