Exhibition Opening: Endurance of Light: New Work by Rich Bowman

Endurance of Light, the latest exhibition by expressive painter Rich Bowman, opens at Bonner David Galleries in Scottsdale February 26th and reflects the artist’s ongoingfascination with the sky—its constant transformation and its enduring hold on his imagination.

“The sky remains both a subject and a force for me,” says Bowman. “Ever-changing, yet timeless, familiar, yet endlessly surprising. It is a presence that continues to pull me back, inviting contemplation of light, atmosphere and scale.”

The paintings in this exhibition span a wide range of approaches and moods. Central to the show are Bowman’s signature cloud and sunset paintings, where light and color act as the primary emotional drivers. These works emphasize atmosphere over narrative, allowing viewers to engage intuitively with shifting skies and luminous horizons.

Interwoven throughout the exhibition is a subtle influence of the American Southwest. Rather than explicit references, this sense of place emerges through nuanced changes in palette, heat, and horizon—suggesting landscape without defining it outright. The result is a quiet grounding of the ethereal, where atmosphere and environment exist in balance.

“Some of these pieces push toward more extreme perspective, exaggerating space and viewpoint to heighten the viewer’s physical and emotional relationship to the sky,” says Bowman. These compositions expand scale and immersion, encouraging a deeper awareness of the vastness overhead and the act of looking itself.