Exhibition Dates: October 1 – 26, 2024 

Opening Reception: Thurs, October 3, 2024, 5PM-8PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11PM-6PM

Bowery Gallery presents “In Air Landscapes,” a solo show of Timothy King’s recent oil and pastel paintings that blend plein air and narrative studio. His pastel drawings and oil paintings surrounding Chicago and Midwest landscapes exude a sense of modernism. He finds a brevity of depth of space by the nature of his shifting planes and light. Through the complex compositional elements of diagonals intersecting verticals and horizontals, he creates an abstract simplicity of the landscape.

While most of this show is pure landscape, it includes three large canvases of narrative themes. First is a poignant scene witnessed on the famous Chicago Oak Street Beach, recalling the dramatic moment of drowning as it’s resolved. The second recounting is a homage to La Grande Jatte, from urban river habitat, people experiencing homelessness, people in recreation and fishing, fending off territorial wildlife. Third, a surreal tableau of Dionysius, inebriated, riding a panther in a stark black-and-white landscape.

Timothy King is a midwestern painter from Illinois and a professor of drawing and design. He teaches at the College of Lake County, McHenry County College, and Kishwaukee College.

Bowery Gallery was founded in 1969 by a group of New York artists resisting the commercialization of the art world. For 55 years, Bowery Gallery has shown work by artists who share a consciousness of tradition and a belief in the formal power of art. Bowery Gallery artists have shown in group and solo shows in galleries and museums nationwide. Bowery Gallery exhibitions have been praised in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Modern Painters, The New Republic, The New Criterion, and artcritical.com, among other publications.

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