“Torn” was a solo exhibit featuring works by BFA senior Haley Bower.
“Repurposing found materials, I create sophisticated works of art. Driven by formal elements of design such as color, space, form, context, and composition, my work is aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Using found referential material, I isolate and re-contextualize information through carefully constructed compositions. In doing so I reinvigorate and reimbue these pre-conceived constructs with new meaning. Viewer interpretation is partially pre-determined by these past contextual associations and experiences. My collages use these associations in combinations as rich metaphors to create a complex narrative. My work allows the viewer an open-ended but still constrained and controlled interpretation. My work is paradoxical. It is dark and dirty, yet light and beautiful. It is playful and humorous but also serious and sad. It is dated and expired; it has been used and rough handled. It walks on a thin line. It is torn.”
-Haley Bower, 2014