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Installation View: They Say It's Wonderful Margaret Bowland, whose work is now on view at the Alan Avery Art Companyin Atlanta, often deals with issues that are common concerns of postmodernism including race and identity, but her technique comes from a much older source: the deep tradition of European representation.

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Bowland is searching for beauty, an eternal quality that she feels has been diminished and re-defined by consumer culture. Bowland's works seek out difficult truths, evoking awe and discomfort as the artist's perceptions challenge and deepen our own. She understands that art has the power to let both her models and viewers "exist apart" from the world's limits.

I recently interviewed Margaret Bowland, and asked her about her background, and the ideas and values that vivify her art.

 

John Seed Interviews Margaret Bowland
 

Margaret Bowland in her Brooklyn Studio © Lisa Barlow Courtesy Driscoll Babcock Galleries
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