The Community of Jesus

Reflecting the Glory Art Exhibit

Presented by Sandra Bowden, acclaimed visual artist

Opening Reception June 20, 4:00 PM

EXHIBIT: June 20 – August 24

Thursdays – Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Patmos Gallery, Community of Jesus, Orleans, MA
No admission fee

This show highlights several gilded encaustic panels that recall many iconic paintings from our Christian heritage. Their distinct shapes identify the historic works, but because of their solid gold surface, allow the viewer to delight in the radiance of each panel, while drawing on memory and imagination to fill in the form. Forty encaustic gilded panels and forty black panels that are incised with text, become “40 Days/40 Nights.” The black panels are inscribed with the text from John 1, “the light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome the light.” The one hundred panels in “Altar to God’s Glory” remind us God is perfect, all knowing and omnipotent. “The Twelve” challenges us to recall its significance throughout the Bible.
Bowden says, “I believe that art is a means to illuminate both the interior life and the exterior world, both seen and unseen. I hope “Reflecting the Glory” will lead those who see the exhibition beyond the edge of their consciousness into a place of splendor, wonder and transcendence.”
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About Sandra Bowden

Sandra Bowden is a painter and printmaker living in Chatham, MA. Sandra’s art is a conversation across time, incorporating biblical archaeological references, ancient text and historical musical facsimiles and most recently historical altarpieces and crosses.

She has been interpreting Scripture and her own spiritual walk through mixed media for more nearly sixty 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 is shown extensively across the country and is included in many collections, including the Vatican Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, the Museum of Biblical Art, and the Haifa Museum. She has had over 100 one person shows in the US and internationally.

Sandra was president of Christians in the Visual Arts from 1993-2007, was on the board of MOBIA, and is currently on the Advisory Committee for the Duke Initiave for Theology and the Arts. In 2005 Bowden was one of the editors of Faith & Art: Twenty-Five Years of Christians in Visual Arts. She studied at Massachusetts College of Art and received her BA from the State University of New York. For more information on Sandra go to www.sandrabowden.com or www.bowdencollections.com

Sandra Bowden is speaking at Arts Speak at the Performing Arts Center Brewster
August 16: 7:30 – 9:00 PM
She will take us behind the scenes to the biblical roots of her signature gilded encaustic art, particularly the understanding of Glory and how that pertains to her work as an artist. She will take us on a journey of the art’s development, showing how the stunning crosses that hung above the altars of medieval churches launched her quest and how the glorious altarpieces from these churches prompted many of the pieces in her collection. She will also share some of the physical development of these works. Learn More
“Gold Cross” 4 12×12 panels
“Altar to God’s Glory” 100 5×5 panels
“Belini Altarpiece”