Brice Stanley Bowman (June 10, 1951- ) born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Brice S. Bowman's family moved back and forth between Missouri and Georgia before finally settling in northern California in 1958. Born, Brice Stanley Jordan, in the late 1950s his last name was changed to Bowman, when his mother remarried.
It was clear even as early as elementary school that Brice Bowman had talent in Art. He spent a huge amount of time drawing; and his drawings were sophisticated well beyond his years. In addition to continually drawing and painting he spent a lot of time examining art history books trying to understand how such great master painters as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jacques-Louis David painted their paintings. During junior high school he declined to enroll in art classes feeling the assignments were boring. Brice Bowman preferred to return home from school each day to study on his own. In his last year of high school he did however following the advice of his school counselor take a drawing class providing him with his first formal art instruction. Immediately his art teacher recognized that Brice Bowman had already acquired drawing skills beyond the drawing class he was enrolled in. Consequently he was given advanced assignments separate from the other students.
After Brice Bowman graduated from Napa Senior High School in 1969 and given that at this time youth were required to register for the draft, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After serving in the Navy he enrolled in Napa Community College in the Spring of 1973. He received his A.A. degree in Art in 1976. Subsequent to Napa College he attended San Francisco State University where he graduated with his B. A. degree in Painting and Drawing in 1979. Brice Bowman next attended Sacramento State University where graduated from in 1983 with his M.A. degree in Painting and Drawing.
After graduate school he opened a studio in Benicia, California where he painted long days deep into the night truly coming into his own as a painter. During this time he painted some very ambitious and large scale paintings that were widely exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area.
From his work in Benicia his recognition grew as a painter to be taken seriously in the bay area with such exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Center titled Bay Area Modernism: Success or Failure in 1986, contrasting his work with Jay Defeo. (From this exhibition Jay Defeo and Brice Bowman became very close friends until her untimely passing.) About this time Brice Bowman closed his studio in Benicia and opened a studio in Berkeley at 2571 Shattuck Avenue as well as a studio in San Francisco at Post and Grand. This was a very important period in his painting; receiving greater and greater recognition his paintings were widely exhibited throughout the United States.
In 1995 he began to explore other medias such as Digital Art.
This period was generally from about 1995 through early 1998.
1998 was a very pivotal year for Brice Bowman. In the Summer of 1998 Brice Bowman moved to Los Angeles where opened a studio at 120 S. Vignes street.
Another pivotal event occurred in the Fall of 1998 Brice Bowman visited Europe for the first time. This had a huge impact on his life as an artist. This experience of seeing european art in person greatly inspired him. And being in such cities as Arles, Aix-en-Provence, and Nice expanded his already deep rooted desires to make important art. From this time on Brice Bowman became significantly interested in being in Europe and exhibiting his art in Europe; which he did. He has spent significant periods of time in Marseille, France where he has made a lot of experimental films. To date his work has been exhibited or screened such cities as Bucharest, Milan, Rome, Nice, Venice, Marseille, Cologne, Dublin, Copenhagen, Florence, St. Petersburg, and Valencia, New York, Jakarta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Reno, Buffalo as well as many others.
Since Brice Bowman's first film in 1998 Transitional Construction he has made 42 films, as of 2016:
1998, Doll with Hole 2003, An Answer to a Reply 2003, Forced Development 2004, Continuance Which Causes 2004, And Implications 2005, Adieu le Belle 2007, Images of the Sleeper 2009, Je pense à toi, Mon Amour 2011, Moment 2011, Egress 2012.
Education :
California State University, Sacramento M. A. Degree Art 1983
San Francisco State University B. A. Degree Art 1979
Napa Community College A. A. Degree Art 1976
Art Exhibition Record:
Group Exhibitions
Short to the Point Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania 2016
Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia 2016
Festival Images Contre Nature, International Festival of Experimental Video, Association P'Silo, Marseille, France 2016
Coastal Currents, Altered States Film Festival, St. Leonards, England 2015
Festival Images Contre Nature, International Festival of Experimental Video, Association P'Silo, Marseille, France 2015
Festival Images Contre Nature, International Festival of Experimental Video, Association P'Silo, Marseille, France 2014
Festival Images Contre Nature, International Festival of Experimental Video, Association P'Silo, Marseille, France 2013
Festival Images Contre Nature, International Festival of Experimental Video, Association P'Silo, Marseille, France 2012
Atomino Experimental Art Festival, Crimmitschau, Germany 2010
New Media Fest, [Self] ~ imaging //, Cologne, Germany 2010
New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2006, New York City, New York
Rome University I, "La Sapienza-Gates", Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 2003
UNESCO Day of Poetry 2003, Technopoetry for Peace, Giubbe Rosse (P.zza Repubblica), Florence Italy, Mudima Foundation (V. Tadino 26) Milan Italy, 2003
University Roma III - DAMS, Art in Transition. Passages, Tides, Crossings, Rome, Italy 2002
Irish Museum of Modern Art, First IMMA net.art projects - a state of the net.art now, Dublin, Ireland 2002
Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org, Featured Artists series, Brice Bowman, Irina Paskali, Max Hattler, Jaka Zelesnikar, Denmark, 2002
Art Electronics, Global Experimental Poetry NET-ACTION (virtual & real), Rome, Los Angeles, New York, Milan, St Petersburg, 2002
La Galleria Comunale d'Art Moderna di Roma, Le tribu dell'arte, Rome Italy 2001
49th la Biennale di Venezia, Italian ElectronicPoetry Vision Group, Venezia, Italy 2001 Cineteca Comunale di Rimini (Italy)
The XX National Independent Film and Video Festival 2001, Electronic-Poetry Visions International Video-Visual Poetry, Rome, Italy 2001
VideoRiflessi 2000 / Poevisioni Politeama Ruzzi - CorsNuova Italia Vasto - CH Milan, Italy 2001
NetArt, Net-Art 01, Valencia, Spain 2001
Arts Electronics, Poevisioni Electroniniche 2000 Video-Computer and Web, Milan, Italy 2001
Zemo, ZEMOS98-2 Exposition, El Viso del Alcor, Sevilla, Spain 2000
Art Institute of Los Angeles, Faculty Exhibition, Santa Monica, California 2000
Kellogg University Art Gallery, Digitally Propelled Ideas, California State University, Pomona, California USA 2000
Cultural Association, Electronic POE(try) Visions Milan, Italy, 2000
Digital Gallery, ¬Digital Soup, Los Angeles, California 1998
SITE Gallery, Rockies to the Pacific, Los Angeles, California 1998
DADA Exhibition Los Angeles, Downtown Artists, Los Angeles, California 1998
Holter Museum of Art, ANA 27, Helena, Montana 1998
Center for the Visuals Arts, Swells Heads, Oakland, California 1998
St. Markís Church-in-the-Bowery, Visual Arts Program, National Photo Competition, New York, New York 1998
Den Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Civic Arts Education: 35 years of Distinguished Teachers, Walnut Creek, California 1998
Thousand Oaks Art Association, Thousand Oaks Art Association Annual Juried Show, Newbury, California 1998
Center for the Visaul Arts, Artbytes Digital Visual Art Exhibition, Oakland, California 1998
DADA Exhibition, Downtown Artists, Los Angeles, California 1997
Solano College, Faculty Exhibition, Suisun City, California 1996
USL Capital Corporation, New Acquisitions, San Francisco, California 1995
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Museum Gallery Works on Paper, San Francisco, California 1992
Clary-Miner Gallery, Art Trends-International Competition, Buffalo, New York 1991
Glendale Regional Arts Council, Kaleidoscope 91 Fine Arts Competition, Glendale, California 1991
San Diego Museum of Art, 1990 All-California Open Juried Exhibition, San Diego, California 1990
Gallery House California Competition, Palo Alto, California 1989
College of Marin, Seven Select Bay Area Artists, Kentfield, California 1989
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, New Art Paintings from New York, Texas and California, Austin, Texas 1989
Frances Young Gallery, Bay Area Arts Competition, Marin, California 1989
Berkeley Art Center, National Painting Competition, Berkeley, California 1989
Solano College, Faculty Exhibition, Suisun City, California 1988
Contract Design Center, Five Bay Area Artists, San Francisco, California 1988
Crocker Museum of Art, Crocker Kingsley Annual, Sacramento, California 1988
Hayward Forum of the Arts, Regional Arts Competition, Hayward, California 1988
Nave Museum, Victoria Regional Museum Association, National Traveling Fine Arts Competition, Victoria, Texas 1987
Stephen J. Austin State University ñ Griffith Gallery, National Traveling Fine Arts Competition, Anacodches, Texas 1987
Abilene Christian University ñ Shore Art Gallery, National Traveling Fine Arts Competition, Abilene, Texas 1987
Student Center San Jascinto College Center, National Traveling Fine Arts
Competition, Pasadena, Texas 1987
Berkeley Art Center, Bay Area Modernism: Success or Failure, Berkeley, California 1986
Redding Museum of Art, West Coast Art Exhibition, Redding, California 1986
Alexandra Museum of Art, VAC National Fine Arts Competition, Alexandra, Louisiana 1986
CVAA, La Grange National XI, La Grange, Georgia 1986
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Texas Fine Arts Association, New American Talent, Austin, Texas 1986
Hayward Forum of the Arts, Regional Arts Competition, Hayward, California 1986
Crocker Art Museum, Crocker Kingsley Annual, Sacramento, California 1986
Solano College, Faculty Exhibition, Suisun City, California 1986
Pacific Grove Art Center, 2nd West Coast Biennial, Pacific Grove, California 1985
Orange County Art Association, 19th Annual All-California Media National Exhibition, Orange, California 1985
Jewish Center of Houston, 20th Annual National Art Exhibition, Houston, Texas 1985
Nanny Goat Hill Gallery, Pulse of the City, San Francisco, California 1985
San Mateo Arts Council, Bay Arts 85, Belmont, California 1985
Clocktower Exhibition Hall, City Art Competition, Benicia, California 1985
San Jose Art League, 2-D Competition, San Jose, California 1985
Napa College, Faculty Exhibition, Napa, California 1985
San Francisco Arts Commission, Northern California Arts Competition, San Francisco, California 1985
Northern California Arts Association, Annual Competition, Sacramento, California 1984
Galerie Lumiere, Competitive Art Exhibition, San Francisco, California 1984
San Francisco Arts Commission, Northern California Arts Competition, San Francisco, California 1984
California Exposition, State Fine Arts Competition, Sacramento, California 1984
Crocker Museum of Art, Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Sacramento, California 1984
Forum of the Arts, Regional Arts Competition, Hayward, California 1984
Solo Exhibitions
Great Western Bank, Fashion Island, Paintings and Graphite Works on Canvas, Newport Beach, California 1992
University of Nevada, Manville Gallery, Mind-Paint-Activity Paintings, Reno, Nevada 1987
Solano College Art Department Gallery, Paintings and Drawings Brice Bowman, Suisun, California 1995
San Jose State University, Gallery 1, Large Oils by Brice Bowman San Jose, California 1983
Two-Person Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rental Gallery, New Works on Canvas, San Francisco, California 1988
Jeremy Stone Gallery, Introductions 87, San Francisco, California 1987
Weir Gallery, Thirty Drawings, Berkeley, California 1987
California State University, Witt Gallery, Abstract Drawings Sacramento, Caliornia 1982