Visual artist Sandra Bowden has been interpreting Scripture and her own spiritual walk through mixed media for more than forty years. She has been acclaimed as one of the most unique, impressive and inspiring Christian artists in America. Bowden’s work has been featured in books, magazines and gallery shows across the United States, Canada, Italy and Jerusalem.
Her work fuses the vivid yet traditional imagery of the Old Testament – stone tablets and artifacts, Hebrew inscriptions, architectural depictions – with images of Christ’s passion, important music scores, and God’s natural creations. She has issued several series of artworks over the years: crucifixion scenes, artistic use of text and color, new interpretations of classic religious artwork, even altered books with applied textures and hues. God’s grandeur and creativity shine through in each piece of her art.
“My Christian faith has been the driving force behind my art,” Bowden says. “I look at the making of a piece of art as a kind of doxology, a prayer or conversation with God. I don’t mean this in any mystical way, but my ideas come out of my theology and thoughts about God. I am somewhat of a theologian, but one who translates those interpretations into visual form.”
2018 |
Reflecting the Glory, Gallery at St. Christopher’s, Chatham, MA |
2016 |
Reflections of Glory, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA |
2014 |
Art History 101: Icons of Western Art, Central College of Florida, Ocala, FL With Word and Song, Luther College, Decorah, IA, October |
2007 |
IKON and LOGOS: Exploring the Book Regent College, Vancouver, BC Canada |
2006 |
Illuminations, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS |
2005 |
Icons & Logos: The Art of Sandra Bowden: 40 year Retrospective, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, |
2004 |
Word as Image, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA |
2002 |
Via Crucis: The Way of the Cross, Instituto San Lodovico, Orvieto, Italy |
1998 |
Meditations Across Time, Visions Gallery Albany, NY |
1996 |
Word as Image, Bible Lands Museum. Jerusalem, Israel |
1990 |
Hillel, Rose Warner House, Cincinnati, OH |
1985 |
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Touchstone Gallery, Hendersonville, NC |
1984 |
Monroe Community College, Monroe, MI |
1983 |
Illuminations, Center Galleries, Albany, NY |
1981 |
Text and Textures, Kolbo Gallery, Boston, MA |
1980 |
Gallery 3, Roanoke, VA |
1976 |
Private Gallery, Kensington, MD |
1973 |
Patmos Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
1970 |
State University of New York at Cobleskill, Cobleskill, NY |
1966 |
Works by Sandra Bowden, Gordon College, Wenham, MA |
Vatican Museum of Contemporary Religious Art |
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI |
Duke University, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC |
Brauer Museum, Valparaiso, IN |
Atwood Museum, Chatham, MA |
Haifa Museum, Haifa Israel |
Hebrew Union College, New York City |
American Bible Society, Philadelphia, PA |
Taylor University, Upland IN |
International Business Machines, |
Gordon College, Wenham, MA |
General Electric Company |