Lauder Bowden

Born in New York / Works in New York

BIO

Lauder Bowden, born in New York during the Baby Boom era, is an artist and designer. A child of immigrants from Scotland and Hungary, he was encouraged by his father to to pursue the arts and design which culminated with a BFA from Pratt Institute. Fleeting moments of the mundane appeal to his subject matter as well as everyday snapshots of inanimate and animate objects to both display the human condition portrayed through abstraction and narrative works.

His work sits in corporate collections and private homes throughout the United States and Europe. He has exhibited at the Grainery Museum, Grand Central Station, and in various parts of New York. His varied series questions kitsch and the revolving door of fashion in our image saturated eta while his other series explores abstraction and space. Bowden is current working on digital reinterpretation of his work created in the early 90s-00s.

I have been an artist and designer my entire life. My art education at Pratt Institute enabled me to provide for myself as a designer and interior photographer while contributing to the art world with graphics, and painting. In the last twenty years my professional focus has been on fine arts. My work is collected in both the private and institutional settings. I believe and drawing and painting are not in themselves art; but rather it is what they convey that can be art. Pictures are not always art, only art is art. I have served as creative director of one of the largest Design Firms in the U.S., Walker Group; been a partner at the prestigious residential Design Firm – BHR Design Group, and a Curator and Art advisor for many clients both residential and institutional. My art works have been exhibited in a variety of venues in New York. Currently my attentions are focused on the fine arts and broadening recognition of my work in the New York Gallery community.