Claire Bowman
Claire Bowman
Claire Bowman is a contemporary printmaker with additional interests in paper making, textiles, and artist books. Her work is concerned with the expression of interpersonal connections and understanding of the self within our post-digital, hyper-connected world. She recently received her Master of Fine arts Kent State University, in Photography and Print Media, and previously, her BFA from the University of Dayton. She is the current Assistant Media and Facilities Coordinator at the University of Dayton.
One of the most uniting experiences of humanity is our connection to our physical body. While they come in a plethora of variations, we all have a physical form that we must use to understand the world around us and get us through our daily lives. For women in particular, this experience can have an even deeper unifying force, caused by continued methods of societal objectification, both obvious and subtle. We often learn from each other how to look at ourselves and judge our own bodies based on how we see friends and family objectifying themselves. In effect, our understanding of self becomes intrinsically tied to the other women around us.
