#robert bowen

Exciting new works from Robert Bowen currently on view at Talon Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

Robert Bowen is a visual artist based in San Francisco, California whose work explores the tension between humanity and the natural world through the use of hybrid animal and machinery subjects. With a background in graffiti and street art and self-directed classical education in painting, Bowen has been exhibiting his artwork for over 25 years in the US and internationally, with notable shows at the de Young Museum and Crocker Art Museum.

Robert Bowen aka @bowenstuff

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Killer Bee

Robert Bowen

3223 Folsom St in Sacramento, Ca

At Wide Open Walls in Sacramento, Ca. standing by a piece Robert Bowen just created outside Archival Gallery.

First time we met San Francisco artist Robert Bowen was on the street several years ago. That was a rare event for this artist who began his career painting graffiti pieces. A member of the Lords Crew. His main focus for most of his adult life, after a brief stent in art school, has been creating and showing studio art in the Bay Area and throughout the US.

He is fascinated with animal/machinery hybrids. Asking continual questions... How do I make the Killer Whale a more efficient killer? Can the marlin and shark be even faster hunters, more dangerous to their only predators, man? If the bees continue to disappear, should we design a replacement to pick up where they left off? 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 is continuing to play mad scientist in a lab that should never really exist…

Check out his page for other modified predators and animals. It isn't all serious. See one of our favorites a flying pig to commemorate the year of the pig.

https://www.robertbowenart.com