Pulp is pleased to announce a two person exhibit with Paul Bowen and Andrew Long. The exhibition will run until March 6th.
To see individual artwork by both artists, please visit the ‘artist’ tab on the website.
Paul Bowen, who grew up in a seaside town in Wales, lived and worked near the waterfront in Provincetown, MA, on Cape Cod, for 30 years. He has always been interested in material with a history, and the scavenged wood from ships, homes, salt works, barrels, cable drums, and all manner of marine detritus are the inspiration and building blocks for his sculptures. Bowen also draws and creates prints using his own ink made from squid, walnuts and xerox toner.
Since moving to Vermont in 2005, Bowen’s work began to reflect his new surroundings - images of covered bridges merge wharf-like in many of his drawings and his new sculptures combine sea-worn wood he has found on Cape Cod with wood from Wilder Dam in New Hampshire.
Bowen has been a recipient of fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center and the Welsh Arts Council. He is a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College and has had retrospective exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, MA and the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis, MA. His work is in many private and public collections.
Andrew Long, a talented emerging artist, was born in Reading, PA, and has lived in Cuba, Nepal, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia and (now)Mexico. For this exhibition we will present a brand new series of paintings on canvas that have been completed while in Mexico, an earlier set of ink drawings that were done while in the Ukraine, and prints from an upcoming book project. Here are some words by Long -
“My work is to develop a process of creation: the output is two dimensional media. I consider myself a visual researcher, a passenger of the world, The mode of creation is site-specific: it exists in tandem to my own process to stabilize and become who I am (wherever I am).
“My process incorporates reflection and accumulation to further creativity. The production of art becomes a methodology of emotional, visual, and physical recycling.”
“As a teenager I had studied encaustic painting and fine arts.Later, I attended the New School, where I became fascinated with research, illustration, and media. Since graduating, I have left the US- and have been applying myself to the world to see what resonates with me. The decision to focus on art occurred to me early in 2019, and I have been following that since.”