Lot 56
Roy Dowell
Untitled #574
1992
collage, acrylic on paper
$5,800-$6,200
9"x 6 7/8"

“Roy Dowell's collages are reminiscent of Pop art's cheerful embrace of the two-dimensional world of advertising. His saturated palette, which includes bright, opaque reds, yellows, blues and greens, recalls Lichtenstein's paintings, as do his graphic black lines and scraps of paper printed with Benday dot patterns. Because the sources of these scraps are posters and billboards, the French affichistes come to mind as well, but the single most important reference is to Cubism, a style of little consequence for most contemporary artists. Dowell makes it fresh and interesting again.” (Frances Colpitt, Art in America, February 2002) A long-standing presence in the Los Angeles visual art community, Dowell earned both his BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and now teaches at Otis. His work is included in numerous public collections throughout the nation. He is represented by Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles, where he presented new work earlier this year.