Claire Cowie "Crossings"

January 15, 2022—March 5, 2022 | Online Exhibition January 15 to to March 5, 2022

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present our ninth exhibition with artist Claire Cowie. Titled “Crossings” the show is a selection of twelve pieces focusing on the connections between Cowie’s print making practice and its influence on her unique works on paper. Paper has been the artist’s primary material. Even when making sculpture she has often enhanced her three-dimensional objects with bits of paper. This exhibition looks at the bridge between print-making and drawing and how Cowie intertwines subject matter and themes between both mediums.

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"Orange Smoke" 2004
“The Root System” 2004
"Fox in Puddle," 2012
"Where Are You" 2014
“Stranded: Raven and Egret” 2010
“The Game” 2020
“Waiting (Ship)” 2012
“The Storm” 2009
“Pallas” 2016
“Self-Portrait” 2002
“Self-Portrait (Blind)” 2019
"Mind Map III" 2019

Claire Cowie

Claire Cowie uses a variety of media to reference the natural world around her home in Seattle, as well as around the world. Cowie utilizes symbols of the natural world such as birds, insects, and a variety of plant-life, as well as heavily using the negative space in a work. By using watercolor and ink in the areas around her subject Cowie references the fragmentation between the natural world and us, as well as of memory. The colors and shapes in her work create dream-like landscapes that pull in characteristics of urban architecture.

 Claire Cowie lives and works in Seattle, Washington, where she is a lecturer at the University of Washington. Cowie attended both the North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, NC) and Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO). She received her MFA from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Cowie’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including shows at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), Takeda Biennial (Oaxaca, Mexico), Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA), Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA), Shenzhen Art Institute (Shenzhen, China) and the Art Gym at Marylhurst University (Lake Oswego, OR). Her work is included in the collections of the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA), Safeco (Seattle, WA), and Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA), among others.