“All the energy is in the technique, the facture, the hand of the artist, expressing a performative presence that is both somber and meticulous, fractal and rapturous.” ~ Shana Nys Dambrot, “Poet of the Singularity" (2021)

 

 

 

Architecture of Infection
96" x 84"
Oil on Canvas
2010

The Geometry in Violence
50" x 48"
2010

Internal Dialectic
84" x 72"
2013

Dissonent Accord
84" x 72"
2013

Logic of Convergence
84" x 72"
2013

Ascension
84" x 72"
2015

Bleach
72" x 60"
2015

Pure Impurity
84" x 72"
2015

The Future
84" x 72"
2016

Theory on the Sacred Disease II
72" x 60"
2016

Future Anesthetics I
84" x 72"
2018

Harbinger II
84" x 72"
2019

Harbinger I
84" x 72"
2019

Clone II
60" x 48"
2019

Lithium
84" x 72"
2020

Magician II
84" x 72"
2020

Serotonin
84" x 72"
2020

Subject Study
84" x 72"
2020

Wise Blood
84" x 72"
2021

Absolution
102" x 78"
2021

Suspended Rapture
Diptych 108" x 144"
2021

Inability to Escape I
72" x 60"
2021

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ESSAY
Justin Bower: Poet of the Singularity
SHANA NYS DAMBROT

Faith Healer 1 and II
84" x 72" each

ABOUT THE CURATOR

SHANA NYS DAMBROT is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. She is the Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly, and a contributor to Flaunt, Art & Cake, and Artillery. She is the author of the experimental novella Zen Psychosis (2020, Griffith Moon). To learn more about this busy and progressive arts writer, Click Here.

Detail: The Three Visitations, a Tryptic

BIOGRAPHY
JUSTIN BOWER

CURRICULUM VITAE

Solo Exhibitions

2016
Thresholds, The Lancaster Museum of History & Art, Lancaster, CA

2015
The Humiliations, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Panic Room, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Embedded, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Agency and Interface, Lamag, Winner of the Feitelson Grant, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

2009
Destabilizer, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, Ca.

2008
Graduate Work, DA Gallery, Pomona, Ca.

2007
In Your Face, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo Ca.
Justin Bower: New works, Catalyst Gallery, U. C. Irvine, Ca.

2004
Blue Lot, East Village Workshop, Santa Ana, Ca.
Spectacle in Blue, Blue Lot, Santa Ana, Ca.
Biology Lesson, Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana, Ca.
Face Off, Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach, Ca.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017
#UNIX, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY
About Face, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Pomona, CA

2016
Future Anesthetics, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Efflorescence, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY

2013
True Believers, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Art Southampton Art Fair, NY
Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, CA

2012
ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

2011
Tel-Art-Phone, Curated by Mat Gleason, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Platform Los Angeles, CA
Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, CA

2010
Seven Miami Art Basel, Bravinlee Projects, Miami, FL
Cacophonic, Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
The Reflected Gaze, Group Show with Chuck Close and Damien Hirst
Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Cherry Pie, Western Projects, Culver City, CA

2009
ARTRA, T-LOFTS, Los Angeles, Ca.
GLAMFA, Long Beach, Ca.
12 Gauge, New Paintings, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, Ca.
12, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, Ca.
Claremont MFA, DA Gallery, Pomona, Ca.

2008
Hiedegger's Huts: Architectures of Thought and Space, EGS Project Room, Sass-Fee, Switzerland.
Snap-to-Grid, LACADA, Los Angeles, Ca.
Popzatlan, DA Gallery, Pomona, Ca.
MFA 1, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, Ca.

2007
Acute: Small Works by 22 Los Angeles Artists, Room Gallery, Irvine, Ca. (catalog)

Awards

Feitelson Fellowship Grant, Joan Mitchell Award Nominee, 2010
Four Outstanding Fellowships from Claremont Graduate University 2008-2009
TACFA (Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts) Grant, 2008
Orange County Arts Grant for Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking - Honorable Mention 2007 (catalog)

Reviews and Publications

Cochella Magazine, “Post-Humans,” by Jorge Perezchica, July 2015
American Art Collector, “In Flux,” by John O’Hern, April 2015
KCET, “Beneath The Skin: The Paintings Of Justin Bower,” by Carolina Miranda, January 2013
Studio Visit Magazine, Front Cover, January 2013
LA Times, “Art Review: Justin Bower At Ace Gallery,” by Christopher Knight, January 2011
Artillery Magazine, “Embedded,” by James Scarborough, December 2010
New American Paintings,Front Cover, April 2010
New American Paintings, April 2010
Graduate Magazine, Front Cover, September 2009
Tustin News: "Top Notices" by Barbara Foster, 2008
Saddleback College Newspaper, "Justin Bower: In your Face," by Jim Thompson, 2007
Orange Coast Review,Iissue 2, 2006
The OC Weekly, 'The Little Pages That Could', by Cornel Bonca, 2005
Automatic Magazine, Issue 3, Emerging Artists, 2001

Collections

The Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles Tim Redman, UK
Stuart Holt, UK
Wendy Asher Worth, Malibu
Eugenio Lopez Alonso, MX
Ben Bourgeois, Los Angeles
Paula Thomas, CEO Thomas Wylde Design Labs
Nick Reed, Los Angeles
Greg Conn, UK
Rutan and Tucker Law Firm University of Arizona Museum of Art
Paula Goodman, Design Firms Los Angeles
Lyman Parrigin
Rutan and Tucker Law Firm University of Arizona Museum of Art