***PLEASE NOTE : EXHIBITION OPENED FEBRUARY 2, 2019**** The Landing is pleased to present Radiant Abstractions, a retrospective of paintings by Bay Area artist Richard Bowman (1918-2001). In the 1950s and 60s, Bowman pioneered the use of fluorescent paints, incorporating them into wildly energetic abstract works profoundly influenced by scientific phenomena. Said Bowman in 1951, “My work is based on scientific fact. It is realism seen through the laboratory microscope and translated into artistic terms of color, movement and form.” Bowman’s kinetic, glowing canvases feature brief, high-energy strokes and daubs, sometimes raised from the canvas, that weave into forms reminiscent of celestial fluctuations–like nebula rising in deep space. Some resemble the cloud-chamber photographs that physicists were making in the 50s, and others bring to mind shifts taking place on the subatomic level, or the unfolding of fireworks. Their electric brightness is made even more alive by the feeling of great motion within them–of immense forces gathering or disseminating with a frenetic, natural sweep; they seem to perpetually capture the constant becoming of the cosmos: the shifting and swelling vitality of nature herself.