Wolff Bowden (b. 1975)
Artist / Poet / Musician
Wolff@ThePaintedPoet.com Seattle, WA 206.271.4677
Education
1999 Bachelor of Arts Degree, New College of Florida
1998 Art History Course, Aberdeen University, Scotland, U.K.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Wolff, Artist & Poet, Dragonfire Gallery, Edmonds, WA
2013 Solo Exhibition, Art At The Plaza, Belleair Bluffs, FL
2009 Wolff & The Winterlings, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Winter Wonders, Casselberry Art Center, Casselberry, FL
2005 Swampfire: The Art of Wolff, Kennedy Gallery, Miami, FL
2004 Solo Exhibition, Leapin’ Lizard Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME
2003 Wolff, The Prince of Pigment, The Brock Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Fall Exhibition, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2014 Group Exhibition, Galleria Misto, Belleair Bluffs, FL
2011 Group Exhibition, Singing Stone Gallery, Tampa, FL
2009 Outsider Vision, Six Degrees Gallery, Naples, FL
2008 Group Exhibition, Pegasus Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2007 Group Exhibition, Giving Tree Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2006 Group Exhibition, Austin Galleries, Austin, TX
2004 Group Exhibition, Masterpiece Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
2001 Poets, Jazz, Paint, Porter Troupe Gallery, La Jolla, CA. Curated by Pulitzer Prizewinner Yusef Komunyaaka.
Selected Trade Exhibitions
2012 Best of the Northwest, Seattle, WA
2001 ARTEXPO NEW YORK, New York, NY
2000 ARTEXPO SOUTH MIAMI, South Miami, FL
Gallery Ownership & Curation
1999-2002 Owner and Curator, Wolff Gallery of Art, Stuart, FL. Represented multiple artists and sold artwork to major collectors.
Selected Publications / Advertising
2000-2008 Natural Awakenings Magazine, Covers featuring “Oracle of the Swamp,”“Fire Kiss,” “The Aerialist” & “The First Kiss” Circulation: 80,000 per issue.
2005 Mid American Review, Cover featuring “Night Spiders”
2000 ARTEXPO Advertising Campaign, featuring “Autumn Mask” on 22 billboards, 360 airport/transit ads, 350,000 Sun-Sentinel Posters, Festival Posters, Festival Banners and in digital media formats. 2 Million Dollar Campaign.
Collections
1999-2016 Artworks held in private collections in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Khazakhstan and Belize. Corporate Collections Include Waldorf South Beach, Miami, FL
Selected Collectors
Peter Desantis, Vice President of Amazon Web Services & GM
Keith Ablow, M.D., Television Personality & Author
Frank McCourt, Bestselling Author of Angela’s Ashes & ’Tis
Andre Dawson, Baseball Legend of the Montreal Expos
Billy Collins, Poet & Former Poet Laureate
Winston Carr, Former Chief Elections Officer for Nation of Belize
Martin Sexton, Internationally Acclaimed Musical Performer
Private Client, Starbucks Executive (multiple paintings)
Selected Commissions
Commissioned Portrait of Richard Kupczyk, Flight Director: NASA’s APOLLO MISSIONS
Commissioned Portrait of Willie E. Gary, Attorney
Commissioned Portrait of Russell Troutman, Former President of the Florida Bar Association
Selected Honors
2005 Second Place: South Miami Arts Festival, 2005
2004 BEST IN SHOW / Master’s Award: Stuart Fine Art Festival
2000 ARTEXPO SOUTH MIAMI ARTIST OF THE MILLENNIUM, Miami, FL
1998 1st Place, Poetry Contest, Sarasota Reading Festival, Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate
Music
Wolff is a founding member of the Indie Folk Band, The Winterlings. They have released 3 studio albums and performed at the Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum, Benaroya Hall and hundreds of distinguished venues. Their albums have earned praise from The Seattle Times, No Depression & Paste.
Discography
2016 You Are Acres
2010 The Animal Groom
2008 On The Night You Were Born
Selected Publications
Wolff has published 42 poems, essays and short fictional pieces in literary magazines including: The Madison Review, California Quarterly and The Asheville Poetry Review.
Poetry Collections
2008 Heavyweight Champion of The Night, Redwood River Press
2002 Orphanage of Imagination, Primordialist Press
Selected Press
2016 Seattle Times, The Winterlings look within for wilderness beauty, by Owen R. Smith
2009 The Village Voice & Syndicated News Outlets, Horoscope, poem quoted by Rob Brezsny
2002 St. Lucie Times, Multi-faceted Young Man Has Bright Future Ahead, by Strelsa Schreiber
2000 Artstar Magazine, The Primary Primordialist, by Dominic Ali
Selected Philanthropic Auctions
2012 Seattle Children’s Hospital
2008 Indian River Literacy Council
2006 Rollins College Hamilton Holt School
2004 Orlando Philharmonic
2001 Wolfsonian Museum Scholarship