Illinois - Landscape Paintings

Mark Bowers- Artist Statement With the depiction of landscape playing such a central role in the history of North American art, it seemed to offer many of the critical possibilities I was looking for, and it felt more and more like something I have always known. Something I could easily apply, stage, and manipulate as a diary. My work consists of small-scale highly detailed landscape paintings. They are inspired by the comfort, trepidation, and beauty found in the mundane Chicago Suburbs. I combine nature, decorative house wares, municipal structures, and personal artifacts to hint at current life and future implications in the orchestration of these elements. Each work in the series is a portrait of a search for markers on a journey, an attempt to learn from what is palpable and to appreciate the intangible. The paintings are meant to suggest the truth in the un-idealized moment--the actual truth only exists off the edges of my canvas, off stage, and in the experience of the viewer. Painting the objects in these compositions is like positioning characters on stage in a play, each adding to the dramatization Mark Bowers Little Blue Houses oil on panel 15h x 30w in 38.10h x 76.20w cm MJB008 Mark Bowers b. 1977 St. Joseph, MI Exhibitions 2013 American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI 2012 Fort Wayne Art Museum, Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne, IN Rockford Art Museum Midwestern Biennial, Rockford, IL Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2009 Art Chicago, Represented by Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2007 Beverly Arts Center Biennial, Chicago, IL Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2005 Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2003 Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2001 The Box Factory Gallery, St. Joseph, MI 2000 John G. Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN Michigan State...

Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...

Edt Austria, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Painting, 2014 16" x 20" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas A quaint depiction of the Austrian countryside, this impressionist landscape painting by artist Ingrid Dohm...

Country Stream, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Painting, 2016 30" x 40" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas Hand-signed by the artist. A lush green landscape surrounds a...

Klehm Lilies, Original Contemporary Impressionist Floral Landscape Painting 40" x 30" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas Hand-signed by th...

Artist Commentary: The night. The quiet. Swaying palm trees in the cool breeze of this tropical town is calming and relaxing. Keywords: Cityscape, palm tree, city, upward view

Artist Commentary: The celebration of the 75th anniversary of the "Wizard of Oz" was presented by Warner Bros. and dozens of their partners. As part of the celebration, artists exhibited artwork related to the theme. This painting showed at the slot machine manufacturer in Chicago. Keywords: Oz, Emerald City

Artist Commentary: A plaza sculpture that leads up to the sky. Keywords: city, painting, skyscraper, manhattan, ariel, perspective, sky, spiral, looking up

Our Children of Angels Around 2:30 PM Monday December 1 1958, the schoolchildren of Our Lady Of Angels were almost ready to leave school for the day when they suddenly realized the h...

The Firestorm of Peshtigo October 8 1871, the same night of the Great Fire of Chicago, and The Michigan forest fires. A cold front moved in from the west fanning land clearance fires...

Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas A Nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust and gases where stars are born. The Swan Nebula (which is also called the Omega Nebula and catalogued as Me...

“American Icon” examines the world’s perception of America. It combines quintessential American imagery to create a depiction of this nation as seen through the eyes of the world. From the Founding Fathers to Facebook; Cowboys and the Wild West; The Wright Brothers to PanAm; Mickey Mouse to Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Elvis; Babe Ruth to Hank Aaron...