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What you will find here is the personal website and blog of Sterling Bowen. I’m an abstractionist, blogger, aspiring curator and occasional instructor living in Raleigh, NC. Please subscribe if you’d like a little daily abstraction in your inbox (and tell a friend).

On this site you’ll find content about my paintings and installation work. My blogs often address my practice, and Art (with a big “A”) and society. I also post daily about other artists, 1,900+ and counting, with a focus on non-figurative modalities. If you are curious as I am about this slice of the Art community, you can look for creatives of interest by searching hashtags or peruse a thumbnail diary of works to find something new. If you know who you’re interested in or looking for more about, just use the search bar below.

BTW, “yes” the name of this blog is a reference to Arthur Danto’s collection of essays After the End of Art.

Jemima Murphy

I really enjoy (as regular readers know) wistfully if also mildly resentfully perusing Two Coat’s NYC gallery guides. This Jan’s features Jemima’s Wild Reveries at Anat Ebgi (as well as plugging new work by Dona and Jacqueline). Yeah, I sort of think of Ross a little bit also.

#jemimamurphy

Joy Drury Cox

(a few months ago) Jennifer Dudley at Burnaway had some words about Joy’s approach to (what I will call) the architecture of information. If you like the pieces you should also check out Travis and Stanley if you haven’t already. Below is not the work addressed in the article btw ( more here).

#joydrurycox

Jade Mellor

was one of three artists in Triple Hits at Barbara Davis. Philip at Burnaway has words noting that Mellor’s digitally and hand-worked photographic distortion challenges straightforward communication.

#jademellor

Shaikha Al Mazrou

Danielle at Artsy ranks the 10 best public art works installed in 2025 (international version in case you were wondering) and points at Shaikha’s Deliberate Pauses. Mazrou’s practice is anchored in history of art, borrowing formally from minimalism and intellectually from conceptual art. Influenced by artists from the Modernist and Bauhaus Movements – such as Paul Klee, Carle Andre and Wassily Kandinsky – Al Mazrou uses the formal aspects of minimalism to engage in a current fascination with materiality in art.

More and more

#shaikhaalmazrou

Lucia Di Luciano

ArtNews notes Lucia’s recent passing. An Italian painter associated with the Arte Programmata movement of the 1960s, Di Luciano is known mainly for her abstractions of the 1960s, which are often composed of gridded black and white patterns.

#luciadiluciano

Tom Lloyd

Artist, activist, and community organizer Tom Lloyd worked primarily in abstraction and technology to create unique, electronically programmed light works. ArtNews noted that, like Gulumbu, got some overdue recognition in 2025.

(Some of his work has similarities to Melvin‘s).

#tomlloyd

Gulumbu Yunupiŋu

ArtNews says Gulumbu is one of 10 under-recognized Artists who got their due in 2025. Maria is also on the list.

#gulumbuyunupiŋu

Jack Tworkov

was Janice‘s brother and also an abstract painter. Tworkov’s early work owes much to Cézanne. Applying paint in large blocks that flaunt the flatness of the picture plane, his paintings cohered into still lifes, landscapes, and narrative scenes.
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#jacktworkov

Janice Biala

was a Polish-born American artist whose work, spanning seven decades, is well regarded both in France (where she spent many years) and the United States. Her work lies between figuration and abstraction.

Rebecca at Two Coats has words about a recent, posthumous exhibit of this rarely discussed Modernist.

#janicebiala

Agrade Camíz

Agrade Camiz channels trauma and her youth spent in Rio’s graffiti scene into sensual, urban paintings (she is in Artsy’s Vanguard along with Geoffroy and Sayan).

#agradecamiz

Sayan Chanda

like Geoffroy is in The Artsy Vanguard.

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#sayanchanda

Geoffroy Pithon

made The Artsy Vanguard (now in its eighth year of highlighting the most promising artists working today).

#geoffroypithon

Richard Diebenkorn

was influenced by light and architecture. While I had previously made a blog on this West Coast painter, David at Two Coats recently had a revelatory encounter with his oeuvre at Gagosian that is worth the read (and taking some time to revisit his catalog- more and more).

#richarddiebenkorn

Sylvia Snowden

Jasmine Weber at Hyperallergic notes (among other things) that the 83-year-old artist has dubbed her painterly detonations of color, which physically undulate from their surfaces, as “structural abstract expressionism.”

If you like paintings that “hover delicately between figuration and abstraction” check out Mary as well.
#sylviasnowden

Kylie Heidenheimer

Bill Arning notes over at Two Coats that Private Public Gallery has earned its reputation for mounting deeply considered exhibitions of painting that honor artists who have spent decades refining their own private grammars of mark and color, and that Kylie’s first solo exhibition there is fully in that lineage.

#kylieheidenheimer