BIRDS BURL BRANCHES & BARK

STEVEN S. POWERS & JOSHUA LOWENFELS
BIRDS BURL BRANCHES & BARK
a collection of paintings, folk art and sculpture from the 19th-21st centuries
BIRDS BURL BRANCHES & BARK presents the divergent and overlapping interests and aesthetics
of Steven S. Powers and Joshua Lowenfels around the loose premise of flora and flying fauna.
Powers’ aesthetic flirts with the traditional, however walks the line of the unexpected and unorthodox,
while Lowenfels is well established in the unpredictable, incidental and surprisingly sublime.
Though each presents their own interpretation of the theme—incidental Venn diagram-like overlaps
occur. For example, Powers offers a carved granite mother bird with covey by African-American artist
James W. Washington, Jr. and Lowenfels counters with nineteenth-century salt and pepper molds in
the form of a pair of bird’s eggs with human babies hatching from within. Another is Lowenfels’
unanticipated lid from a tar bucket, with its ground colored a most beautiful vermillion with random
dabs of tar upon it—it is a mandala. Powers pairs this with a naive painting by George E. Morgan
entitled, Bird of Paradise—its tail feathers echoing the color and metaphysical suggestion of the tar
lid.
Powers and Lowenfels will present these and other works at Metro Curates, January 22-25, 2015,
125 West 18th ST, New York, NY 10011.
For more information: Steven S. Powers Joshua Lowenfels
stevenspowers.com
joshualowenfels.com
steve@stevenspowers.com joshlowenfels@aol.com
718-625-1715 / 917-518-0809 212-362-2032 / 914-715-1061