PAST EXHIBITIONS | brookbower

PAST EXHIBITION PORTFOLIO (SELECTED)

The portfolio selection highlights exhibitions that I have designed and collaborated on.

Capturing a Transient World:

A Contemporary Look at Louisiana

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.

April 4 - August 2, 2008

Co-Curator with Karin Eberhardt & Exhibition Designer

Every action initiates a reaction. In the case of the Barrier Islands, the safeguard of Louisiana, the marshes and estuaries are diminishing so rapidly that researchers and artists can do little but document its imminent disappearance. Capturing a Transient World features eleven artists who present an interpretative, multi-media response to the multiplicity of ideas and complex issues surrounding coastal Louisiana. Through the eyes of contemporary artists employing this theme in their art, this collective body of work captures the ecological tension between man and nature and investigates the adverse effects of coastal erosion on the rich Louisianan culture and way of life.

Ray Kass: Trays and Tondos - and Recent Works on Paper

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.

March 6, 2008 - June 6, 2009

Co-Curator & Exhibition Designer

Ray Kass lives in New York City and Blacksburg, Va., where he is Professor Emeritus of Art at Virginia Tech. He is a nationally recognized painter and writer, and is founder and director of the Mountain Lake Workshop, a collaborative, community-based art project drawing on the customs, environmental resources, and technology of the New River Valley and the Appalachian region.

225º F: Encaustic Encounters

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.

November 6, 2009 - February 6, 2010

Curator & Exhibition Designer

225° F: Encaustic Encounters was the first exhibition focused entirely on encaustic painting to be featured in the TVCA’s galleries. This curated, invitational exhibition explores naturalistic themes from the work of exceptional, encaustic artists who challenge the established traditions of the media by expressing innovation in the utilization of encaustic techniques. This exhibition features encaustic painters working with many different techniques of encaustic painting.

North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award Exhibition

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.

April 6- July 28, 2012

Curator & Exhibition Designer

Eighteen artists in North Carolina were awarded the distinctive honor of being named the 2010-2011 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Awards. In the spring of 2012, sixteen of these artists will be featured in the Turchin Center galleries with new work.

The North Exposed: Inuit Art from the Collection of Dr. H.G. Jones: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.

July 6- August 25, 2012

Curator & Exhibition Designer

The North Exposed was an exhibition of Inuit Art from the collection of Dr. H.G. Jones. Dr. Jones has been traveling to the Arctic to study, collect, and write about the culture and art of its native people, the Inuit, since 1971. He has amassed an unmatched collection of Inuit art and artifacts during more than fifty-one trips to the Arctic and has collected over 250 Inuit sculptures and about 200 Inuit prints.

Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi's Studio Practice

The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NYC

October 3, 2012 - April 28, 2013

Project Manager, Exhibition Designer

Intern for South Side Designs and Building

This exhibition explored Noguchi’s working process through a handful of studios that he kept beginning in the 1940s and continuing through the Long Island City and Mure Japan studios that he split his time between until his death. The exhibition illuminated Noguchi’s practice during five studio periods over the course of his career.

Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.

August 27, 2013 – January 25, 2014

Co-Curator with Stephen J. Fletcher

Co-Designer with HannaH Jean Crowell

A project in partnership with the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Hugh Morton (1921–2006) was a prolific photographer who created an estimated quarter-million negatives and transparencies during his lifetime. This exhibition highlights dozens of his lesser or unknown photographs alongside some classics.

Men Working: The Contemporary Collection of Allen

Thomas, Jr.

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.
July 5, 2013 – February 8, 2014

Assistant Curator & Co-Designer with HannaH Jean Crowell

Allen Thomas, Jr. is a collector who is passionate about contemporary art and about access to great art. While his collection features artists working in a variety of two- and three-dimensional media, he has established a stellar collection of photography by artist around the globe.

Dream Repeater: Utopia by Ilasahai Prouty

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, N.C.

February 7 - March 22, 2014

Design Collaborator with artist, Ilasahai Prouty

This installation was a project of the Request for Proposal for the Gallery by Design Project, which is a project enabling artists to expand perspectives by offering a place of experimentation within the gallery walls through site responsive investigation and installation. Dream Repeater was a site-specific installation utilzing prints, sculptures, video and performance art. Visit artist website to view exhibition installation and performance images.