Born – 1959

Chuck Bowdish was born in Ohio in 1959. His father was a Vietnam-era Air Force fighter pilot and his mother an amateur painter and schoolteacher, who taught him how to draw at a young age. Bowdish attended the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, and in the 1980’s studied painting at the New York Studio School with Bruce Gagnier, Nicolas Carone, Peter Agostini, Gretna Campbell, and others.

Bowdish’s visionary figurative work in various media describes a miraculous world inhabited by women, children, angels, mobsters, soldiers and police, where innocence struggles with evil. In Bowdish’s mysterious universe, autobiography, along with 1960’s political history and classical myth, converge.

In 1986, Bowdish began working as an illustrator with The New York Times and Fortune magazine in New York, eventually winning two scholarships: the Edgar Whitney Scholarship and the George Spavena Sculpture Scholarship as he continued to pursue sculpture and painting independently in downtown New York.  After spending time in Mexico, Bowdish moved back to New York in 1991, enrolling at the New York Academy of Art on a full scholarship.

Bowdish has had three solo shows with Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects.  Bowdish received The Neuhouse Award in 2014.  He was included in the New York Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibiton, 2015 where he received the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund Purchase Award. Bowdish lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.[/vc_column_text]

Chuck Bowdish – CV

born – 1959

Education and Experience
1977-1980: Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida
1980-1981: Art Students League, New York
1981-1984: New York Studio School
1993-1995: The Graduate School of Figurative Art, New York Academy

Solo Exhibitions
2012   It’s Best Not to Annoy God, shfap, New York, NY
2009: Watercolors, Coleman Bancroft, New York, NY
2009: “Under this enormous sky…” steven harvey fine art projects @ Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
2006: Tew Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2006: Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2004: New Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, GA
2003: New Paintings, Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, GA
2002: New Work by Chuck Bowdish, Maurice Arlos Fine Art, New York, NY
2001: Paintings and Watercolors, Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, GA
2001: Solo Exhibition, Farrell/Pollack Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2000: Solo Exhibition, Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta,
1998: Solo Exhibition, AAA Gallery, New York, NY
1986: Solo Exhibition, Chubb Insurance World Headquarters, Warren, NJ

Group Exhibitions
2014:Leaves, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY
2014:Paintings, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects @ Projector, New York, NY
2014: Triangle Association: We Know What We Like Spring Fundraiser, Lori  Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2014: Heads: a Retelling, LIU Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013: Wynn Newhouse Awards 2012 Exhibition, Palitz Gallery, New York, NY
2012: Heads, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2011: Figural, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011: 18 + 1 Artists, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
2010: Journals, Artbook Fair, SHFAP @ MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2010: black sunlight, Los Angeles Art Show, steven harvey fine art projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008/2009: Old School, steven harvey fine art projects @ Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
2008: Vessels, steven harvey fine art projects, New York, NY
2008: Persona, steven harvey fine art projects, New York, NY
2005: The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School, curated by Jennifer Sachs Samet @ the New York Studio School, New York, NY
2002: Affordable Art Fair New York, NY, Maurice Arlos Fine Art, New York, NY
2000: “Five Figure Painters from New York and Pennsylvania”, Artists for Art, Scranton, PA
1998: “Drawings 1980- 1999” Farrell/Pollack Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
1998: “Color is Everything” Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, GA
1998: “New Talents” Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, GA
1996: Sussex Community College, Newton, NJ
1996: Purchase Award, Maitland Center for the Arts, Orlando, FL
1992: Best of Show, Ringling Alumni Show, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL

Grants/ Awards
2012: Wynn Newhouse Award Winner

Bibliography
The Gallery Guy Blogspot Chuck Bowdish at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, review, September. 13, 2012
David Cohen, Art Critical, Books In Brief, Amercan Dream
Chuck Bowdish, review, 2009
American Dream: Drawings from a Rough Childhood, Chuck Bowdish, co-published by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, 2009
“Chuck Bowdish: Under this enormous sky,” review,
City Arts, August 2009, John Goodrich
“Sasha Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish at Sideshow”,
revie, Brooklyn Rail, July-August  2006, Ben La Rocoo
“An Artistic jack-of-many-trades”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Friday, April 4, 2003, Jerry Cullum.
“Smooth Around the Edges: Pollock Thrives on Paper”, New York Observer, 7/03/06, Mario Naves

Public Collections
Western Carolina University Art Museum
Butler Institute of American Art

Film
Chuck Bowdish: Painter, 2001, Director: Peter Wareing