'BRIDGE STUDIO COLLECTIVE'
A Group Exhibition Curated By Robert Bowen
The Bridge Studio Collective is an eclectic group of artists working across a variety of disciplines. The collective is composed of painters, illustrators, paper sculptors, textile artists, and stylist/ designers; each member has developed a distinctive style and mastery of their craft. The Bridge Studio Collective was formed in 2023 when the 333 Bryant Street building in San Francisco's SOMA district, adjacent to the iconic Bay Bridge was made available to a group of working artists and built out into studios.
With work showcased in public works projects, museums, galleries, publications, murals, and rock posters; these artists bring years of experience and countless hours of honing their craft to every project. Every member of the collective has cultivated a recognizable visual language that is uniquely their own.
This presentation has been facilitated and curated by collective member, Robert Bowen, in partnership with 111 Minna Gallery and includes work from current and former members and a site-specific mural by Chad Hasegawa. The collection promises to be a visual carnival, an engaging blend of fun, thought-provoking, and carefully crafted art that is sure to delight.
This collective exhibition will feature the works of:
Robert Bowen is a San Francisco based fine artist and muralist. His work focuses on his fascination with animal/machinery hybrids. He presents many unanswered questions about the relation between the two. Is this a not-so-distant future reality? A terrible road we should never go down? If the bees continue to disappear, should we design a replacement to pick up where they left off? Do we fiddle with apex predators to try to find out what makes an efficient killing machine? Or do we accept our fate and stop toying with Mother Nature since that is what got us into trouble in the first place. He continues to play the mad scientist in a laboratory that should never really exist. To juxtapose these prophetic tragedies, he has created a new series of creatures with a precious stone element to them, based on the idea that all people should protect nature and its fauna in the same way they safeguard their most prized jewels, because if they don't... they might end up with the former.
'BRIDGE STUDIO COLLECTIVE'
A Group Exhibition Curated By Robert Bowen
The Bridge Studio Collective is an eclectic group of artists working across a variety of disciplines. The collective is composed of painters, illustrators, paper sculptors, textile artists, and stylist/ designers; each member has developed a distinctive style and mastery of their craft. The Bridge Studio Collective was formed in 2023 when the 333 Bryant Street building in San Francisco's SOMA district, adjacent to the iconic Bay Bridge was made available to a group of working artists and built out into studios.
With work showcased in public works projects, museums, galleries, publications, murals, and rock posters; these artists bring years of experience and countless hours of honing their craft to every project. Every member of the collective has cultivated a recognizable visual language that is uniquely their own.
This presentation has been facilitated and curated by collective member, Robert Bowen, in partnership with 111 Minna Gallery and includes work from current and former members and a site-specific mural by Chad Hasegawa. The collection promises to be a visual carnival, an engaging blend of fun, thought-provoking, and carefully crafted art that is sure to delight.
This collective exhibition will feature the works of:
Robert Bowen is a San Francisco based fine artist and muralist. His work focuses on his fascination with animal/machinery hybrids. He presents many unanswered questions about the relation between the two. Is this a not-so-distant future reality? A terrible road we should never go down? If the bees continue to disappear, should we design a replacement to pick up where they left off? Do we fiddle with apex predators to try to find out what makes an efficient killing machine? Or do we accept our fate and stop toying with Mother Nature since that is what got us into trouble in the first place. He continues to play the mad scientist in a laboratory that should never really exist. To juxtapose these prophetic tragedies, he has created a new series of creatures with a precious stone element to them, based on the idea that all people should protect nature and its fauna in the same way they safeguard their most prized jewels, because if they don't... they might end up with the former.