upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

Astrid Bowlby

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2002 Leeway Award for Excellence

I make drawing installations, sculptures from paper that I've drawn on, and single-sheet drawings. This work has evolved from strong dueling interests in drawing and sculpture, as well as admiration for the flexibility of paper. I make drawings in a variety of forms in order to consider themes like expansion, contraction, density, accrual and scale. Because of this, many of my projects are on-going. This serializing instinct meshes well with both my interests in cartooning and animation and my interest in natural patterns of growth. When I approach a serialized drawing project, I use repeated imagery that appears in different positions and relative sizes. Sometimes I imagine the contents of a comic book being shaken between its covers and dumped onto the floor or expanded to fill an entire room. I like drawings simultaneously literal and symbolic nature, especially when I cut-out what I've drawn. If I need something: flower, canoe, spiral, star, blob, grilled cheese sandwich, patch of grass - I can get it by drawing it. I make a physical analogy to thought that can be reconsidered by being rearranged and added to. I envision the work evolving through these various formats for the foreseeable future.

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