Patrick Bower

Combato 1 | 2025 | Pencil, acrylic and flashe on unstretched canvas The subjects of my work are internal emotional and spiritual states, usually expressed through figuration. I’m interested in exercising a certain organ of perception that helps us see the “imaginal” world, a very real place that can’t be reached through our ordinary senses. It’s a realm of images and symbols that hovers between material fact and rational abstraction, a place where the “soul” shows itself to itself. It’s also a place where meaning can be found. So this is my process: to prepare an environment that makes room for the imaginal to manifest and, when it comes, to respond to it in a way that will make these images sensible to everyone. I use ordinary tools to this: paint, charcoal, pencil, paper, canvas. Like all symbols, my images don’t have a fixed meaning. But over time, they tend to reveal themselves. I hope that they invite interpretations and stirs the imagination of the viewer.

My Life | 2026 | Acrylic and Flashe on canvas

Field of Play is excited to welcome Patrick Bower as a new member curator with the gallery. Please join us in celebrating @patrickbowerart Thrilled to have you on the team! Patrick Bower is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work has been exhibited at Latitude Gallery, MePaintsMe, and Nine Gallery, among other venues in New York City and beyond. He was a Saltonstall Foundation Fellow and was named an “artist to watch” by Ortega y Gasset Projects. In addition to his studio practice, Bower is active as a curator, previously co-founding the artist-run collective Immaterial Projects and currently organizing exhibitions at Field of Play Gallery. His exhibitions have been reviewed in Two Coats of Paint and elsewhere. A self-taught artist, Patrick earned a BA in English and Classical Literature from Indiana University.

Mercy Me | 2026 | Acrylic and Flashe on canvas | 12 x 16 inches

Hermes | 2025 | Acrylic and Flashe on canvas | 9 x 11 inches

January 24. 2026. Acrylic on canvas. 16 x 20 inches.

Untitled | 2025 | Acrylic and flashe on canvas | 12 x 16 inches

As Required | 2026 | Acrylic on canvas | 8 x 10 inches

Just wanted to say thank you again to @latitudegallery_newyork for including me in Unbridlea: Horsin’ Around, which is up until March 14th. Please check it out! Lots of great work to see. 🐎🐎

She's One of Ours | 2026 | Acrylic and flashe on canvas | 12 x 16 inches Someone recently pointed out to me that a lot of the figures in my work are falling. I guess that's true. But this one is falling on purpose. (SOLD)

Opening Wednesday 2/4! Thanks to @latitudegallery_newyork for including me. Fun fact, I was born in the year of the horse. More info below: As Lunar New Year draws near—and with 2026 marking the Year of the Horse—LATITUDE Gallery is delighted to announce 𝓤𝓷𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓭: 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓲𝓷’ 𝓐𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 — a salon-style group exhibition celebrating the Year of the Horse. Bringing together 35 artists across diverse cultural backgrounds, visual languages, and historical sensibilities, the exhibition orbits around a single unruly figure: the horse 🐎 — wild, tender, powerful, stubborn, mythic, and endlessly reimagined. 📅 Opening Reception: Wed, February 4, 2026, 6–8pm 🕒 On view: February 4 – March 14, 2026 📍 5 Lispenard St, New York, NY 10013 ⏳ Gallery hours: Tue–Sat, 12–6pm Participating artists include Sarah Avolio, Emma Beatrez, Patrick Bower, Alice Brasser, Cam Champ, Leru Chen, Yishi Chen, Liane Chu, Ana Cristina, Miguel Escobar, Tim Gardner, Till Gerhard, Priya N. Green, Ho Jae Kim, Dene Leigh, Guanguan Li, Xu Li, Xing Li, Xi Li, Iris Yehong Mao, Cici McMonigle, Sarah Alice Moran, Nicolina Morra, Dylan Rose Rheingold, Alan Skalaski, Antonio Vidal, Zhizi Wu, Zexu Wu, Zan Wang, Wendy Wei, Darcy Whent, Hugo Winder-Lind, Timon Yc I, Leonard Yang, and Theresia Zhang. Neither purely symbolic nor merely representational, the horse appears here as a migratory image — one that has galloped across myth, labor, warfare, leisure, cinema, and the modern imagination. Embracing abundance, adjacency, and visual excess, Unbridled allows meanings to proliferate rather than stabilize. Honoring the horse as a symbol of freedom and unbridled spirit, we look toward 2026 with hope — wishing that everything may gallop forward in a better direction. 💌 Comment “horse” for the exclusive exhibition checklist of 𝓤𝓷𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓭: 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓲𝓷’ 𝓐𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭. For general inquiries, please email [email protected] Thank you so many friends, artists and collectors, have been helping up complete the show! Curatorial team: @xumeng_z4869 @weifan__m @augustus__lee #horsepainting #latitudegallery #groupshow #yearofhorse #immigrantartists