Mary Lynn Bowman and Jim Bowman, Paintings and Sculpture

September 21 – October 19, 2024
Kokol Gallery

Reception:
September 28, 2024
5 PM – 7 PM
Kokol Gallery

This exhibit is a retrospective of the past 30 years of work by Mary Lynn and Jim Bowman. Mary Lynn’s work includes paintings in oil/mixed media and wall-hung fused glass works. Jim’s work includes glass and mixed-media sculpture.

About Mary Lynn Bowman

My artwork is a personal journal of my writings, paintings, and sketches. I refer to these things and my poetry when I work.

I am never bored with experimenting with glass, which always gives me fresh ideas in my artwork. I am challenged to use the materials and colors I have to express what I feel as a woman in her 70s trying to figure out my life in the present and what I have felt as a small girl child growing up in the 40s and 50s. My adolescence is still a mystery to be figured into my work at a later time. My work is narrative and reflects myself and my surroundings, my fears, and my joys. My imagery comes from my dreams, from what I observe in humanity, and from my search for the truth.

About Jim Bowman

I was born in Cameron, Texas and currently live and work in Burnsville, North Carolina. I have a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Glass, and I have a passion for the creativity and ingenuity that glass art requires. My work ranges from small table-top pieces to large-scale sculptural and architectural installations. It includes blown glass vessels, wall-mounted and free-standing sculptures, and leaded glass architectural panels.

My autonomous work is sculptural in nature. It is an ongoing experimentation with glass forming processes. In much of my work, I combine glass with other materials, such and steel, wood, concrete, and found objects.