Mike Dowley
Artist Statement
My paintings develop through a process of layering paint and often other materials such as sand or gravel collected from the site of the painting. For the past several years, I have been exploring landscape as a way to access memory and as a way to more fully encounter the physical world. Some of the paintings are painted outside directly from the landscape, while others are painted from memory of a particular place. I know when my paintings are finished when they contain something both familiar and unfamiliar and their surfaces are resolved.

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Solo and Group Exhibitions:
2018 Lay it on, Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC
2017 Open Studio, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016 Light Wishes Only to Be Land, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Connection: Artists Selecting Artists, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Paint & Sip, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, 30+ DC artists, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DCZungenbrecher!!, seven regional artists, NVCC, Manassas Campus, Manassas, VA
2015 Faculty Exhibition, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
2014 Faculty Exhibition, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
2013 Paintings, (Solo Exhibition- Dec 2012), Doris Mae, Washington, DC
2012 19 Ways of Looking at a Painting, Porch Projects, Washington, DC
Faculty Exhibition, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
2011 DC Emerging, Visarts, Rockville, MD
Paint Mix, District of Columbia Art Center, Washington, DC
Bread for the City Auction, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC
2010 Intuitive Paint, w/ William Whitakker, Visarts Center, Rockville, MD
National Small Works, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
2009 New Directions ‘09, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NYJuror: Joan Young, Curator Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum
Statts Benefit Auction,Savannah Station, Savannah, GA
One For the Row, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
White Columns Curated Artist Registry, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Lean To: MFA Thesis Exhibition, SCAD, B. Matthew’s Gallery, Savannah, GA
Summer MFA Painting Preview Group Show, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
Painting as Presence, National Juried Exhibition, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT Juror: William Bailey, Yale University
2007 Bridge Show, Alexander Annex Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
MFA Spring Open Studios, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
2006 MFA Fall Open Studios, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
2004 Summer/Winter: Solo Exhibition, Temporary Space, Gesundheit Center, New York, NY
2003 Summer Landscape Group Show, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.Senior Thesis Exhibition, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Selected Bibliography:
Kriston Capps, Light Wishes Only to be Land (Review), Washington City paper, Aug. 2016
Topher Forhecz, Breaking through, The Gazette, July 13, 2011
Jessica Palumbo, VisArts Showcases Five Local Emerging Artists, WAMU, July 24, 2011
John Anderson, “DC Emerging,” Washington City Paper, July 19, 2011

Awards/Residencies:
Summer Residency & Award Grant Recipient, Vermont Studio Center, 2017
Artist in Residence, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2009-2010
Michael P. Archer Memorial Award, Portfolio Scholarship, Savannah College of Art & Design, 2008
Academic Fellowship Recipient, Savannah College of Art & Design, 2006-2009
Misty Dailey Travel Award, Georgetown University, 2002

Teaching Experience:
Associate Professor of Painting, Drawing & Design, Northern Virginia Community College, 2017-present
Adjunct Instructor, Painting, Drawing & Design, Georgetown University, 2010-present
Adjunct Instructor, Painting, Drawing & Design, Northern Virginia Community College, 2009-2016
Teaching Assistant, Drawing & Color Theory, Savannah College of Art & Design, 2007-2008
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Education:
BA Studio Art & Spanish, Georgetown University
MFA Savannah College of Art & Design