New Visions with Greer Fowler

Greer Fowler, this month’s New Visions Artist, uses her oil paintings to elicit narratives of the every day. She captures her subjects taking part in otherwise unexamined routines—sitting in a traffic jam, waiting for a bus, walking a dog—and her focus is the contemporary urban landscape and the ways in which people interact with it.

Describing her paintings that will be exhibited in McCaw Hall this summer during the Aida performances, she says, “This body of work focuses on people in urban neighborhoods, involved in the revolving, circular tasks of everyday life. I am interested in spaces people have built for themselves, how they inhabit these spaces, and the impact of a [human] presence and what can be left behind.”

Born and raised in Seattle, Fowler attended Whitman College and graduated with a degree in Studio Art in 2002. In addition to oil painting, she has worked in charcoals, pastels, pen and ink drawing, and photography, and she recently took a course at UW in architecture, focusing on technical and spatial drawing. For the past year, she has been working in Seattle Opera’s Development Department as the Financial Services Coordinator.