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by Natasha Bowdoin
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night
…In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?...
Excerpt from The Tyger, William Blake
The Echoing Green brings together new work by Natasha Bowdoin that includes installation, works on paper -- big and small -- and wearable animal sculpture. Conjuring a world of mind reading cats, psychedelic toads, flower portals to another plane and other super flora and fauna, Bowdoin looks to the natural world as a lens through which we can know and understand something of ourselves. Early cartoons, transcendentalist texts, shapeshifter narratives, and botanical textiles offer up spheres of influence towards the cultivation of a nature exuberant and carnivorous.
Natasha Bowdoin (b. 1981, West Kennebunk, ME) received her BA from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, in Classics and Studio Art and her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been presented widely in solo exhibitions including most recently at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AK; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), North Adams, MA; and Lunar Spring, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Paper Routes: Women to Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; and A Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
She has been awarded numerous artist residencies and fellowships, including the Core Artist-in-Residence Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2008-2010); the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (2013); the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist-in-Residence Program, Omaha (2012); and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2007). She is an Associate Professor in Painting and Drawing at Rice University in Houston, TX where she lives and works.
She has been awarded numerous artist residencies and fellowships, including the Core Artist-in-Residence Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2008-2010); the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (2013); the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist-in-Residence Program, Omaha (2012); and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2007). She is an Associate Professor in Painting and Drawing at Rice University in Houston, TX where she lives and works.
March 14, 2026 - May 9, 2026
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