Roy Dowell: New Work
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
4 October - 1 November 1997
The Margo Leavin Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by ROY DOWELL (b. 1951). The exhibition, which marks the artist’s second one-person show at Margo Leavin Gallery, includes nine mixed-media paintings on wood panel and sixteen mixed-media collages on paper.
With a background in photography from Oakland’s College of Arts and Crafts and painting from the California Institute for the Arts, Roy Dowell has been able to unite these two seemingly disparate mediums. Roy Dowell’s work combines collage elements from printed video images and advertisements with abstract painted forms to create a coherent overall composition.
Roy Dowell’s imagery refers to the abundance of visual information disseminated through television, outdoor media, printed matter, and commercial products. In Roy Dowell’s work, however, specific images are distorted or altered so that no one reference is necessarily identifiable. The layering and juxtaposition of the collage elements with the painted elements in Roy Dowell’s work create patterns and colors that function similarly to brushstoke passages found within more traditional abstract painting.
Roy Dowell’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions across the country and has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica; Otis College of Art and Design, Pasadena; and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art.
MARGO LEAVIN GALLERY
812 North Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069
