Michelle Bowers

Michelle Bowers
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

STATEMENT

My studio art practice centers on experimental projects that move between conceptual inquiry and material exploration. Working across physical and digital media, I begin with existing visual frameworks and rework them through collage, layering, and recombination. The work responds to the constant consumption and reuse of images across contemporary culture and digital technologies. Found imagery, abstract forms, and fragments of language are assembled into dense compositions that weave together personal reflection and sociopolitical themes while exploring contrasts between the natural and artificial, memory and invention, and past and present.

Collage operates as both method and structure, allowing unrelated elements to occupy the same space and produce a multiplicity of associations. Drawing on the historical lineage of collage, particularly Dada and Constructivism, the work uses these strategies to examine the tensions and contradictions that shape contemporary society.

BIO

Michelle Bowers is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator, specializing in lettering and collage work that blends handmade and digital processes. She studied art and design at Cranbrook Academy of Art and The University of Arizona. Currently a professor at The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, she has also taught graphic design and printmaking at workshops and college programs across the United States.

Her work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions and has been recognized by the Type Directors Club (TDC), Society of Typographic Arts (STA), PRINT, Adobe, AIGA, the Professional Association for Design, Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), and the University & College Designers Association (UCDA). Most notably her work is published in Cut Me Up Magazine, Typography 41: Annual of the Type Directors Club, Making the Cut, Typo/graphic Posters, and Graphic Design: The New Basics.

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