ARTIST STATEMENT


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              BIO

Noelle Bowden is a visual artist based in Spokane, Washington. She has studied and immersed her visual and literary practice while attending Eastern Washington University. Receiving a Bachelors in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and a Bachelors in Fine Arts, with a focus in painting. As a fragmented thinker, her work explores the layers of language and experience of color. She mindfully structures the themes of memory, movement, the body and nature. Exploring materials and the attachments we have to time, texture, shape and color, Bowden richly immerses visual conversations happening internally.

Bowden is currently just finished an Artist-In-Residence with the Spokane public Library at the Hive.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Through the relationship between painting and poetry, my work explores the concepts of fragmentation and memory. Within the structure of language and abstraction, the visual dialogues form through my use of color, shape, gesture, mark-making, and movement. 

My attentive act of removing paint and fragmenting language reflects the human experience of memory. Guiding those connections by using found surfaces such as used book pages, paper, antique maps, or raw canvas, I want to transcend representation through moments that push and pull you closer to the world around you. Creating an interpretive bridge between the tangible and the ephemeral.

The connection to your own internal fuse is always there questioning you. My work stems from constant self fluctuating want, need, and urgency to understand, or be understood. I always like to think, how can you keep a fire if you keep drowning it in between its time of use?