WENDY BOWMAN

Wendy Bowman Butler (b. 1987) is an American artist who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. Bowman’s paintings and photographs confront the layers of perception through a synthesis of the natural and artificial. The subjects in her work are often isolated—their essences both accented and undercut by their context. She uses hard light and bright color to transform everyday scenes into dreams. Bowman’s career has been defined by versatility—from working on her own individual projects and exhibitions to apprenticing an internationally acclaimed artist and collaborating with major brands. Bowman moved back to her hometown of San Antonio in 2018 after living and working in New York City for 8 years as a painting assistant to artist Sarah Morris in Morris’s NYC studio. Bowman also traveled with Morris extensively to places including France, Germany, China, and Abu Dhabi, working as a photographer on Morris’s films, as well as documenting the artist’s exhibitions across the world.

Cloud Series: Bowman’s Cloud series blends figurative and graphic techniques to represent the intersection of the biological and technological worlds. This series connects consciousness to machine, reality to imagination, and illustrates the dichotomy of the shared human experience and the inherent isolation of the digital age. Her dramatized atmospheric scapes are a commentary on the deconstruction of our organic framework.

Artist Statement: In a layered reality in which we solely exist through perception, all objectivity is lost, and everything is glass.