Jamie Powell: Love is alive

EXHIBITION DATES: may 27 - June 21, 2025

RECEPTION: Thursday, may 29, 5 - 8 pm

Closing RECEPTION: Saturday, June 21, 4 - 6 pm

The Painting Center is pleased to present Love Is Alive, a solo exhibition of works by artist Jamie Powell in the Main Gallery. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, May 27, and runs through June 21, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 29 from 5 to 8 pm.

Jamie Powell was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, 30 miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line, to a family of farmers and factory workers. Her Appalachian roots encouraged a culture of reuse, repurposing, patching, and stitching. She has an interest in exploring the boundaries of what paintings can be through a highly experimental process of dyeing, braiding, weaving, stitching, and sculpting raw canvas. In this most recent body of work, the artist is exploring flower-like forms born out of a deep admiration for the inventive dynamism of nature. Powell reflects that “Flowers are given in times of grief, in times of celebration, and out of love. Love Is Alive is a tribute to love, loss, and life.”

She has exhibited extensively over the last 15 years, including: Soil Gallery in Seattle, David & Schweitzer and Fresh Window in Brooklyn, Freight + Volume, and Morgan Lehman in New York. She has received grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Pratt Institute. In addition to showing with The Painting Center, she is also represented by Peter Anthony Fine Art in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a faculty member at Pratt Institute and a Teaching Artist for the Studio in a School Foundation of New York. She currently resides 35 miles outside of New York City in a small lakeside town.

For more information on the artist, visit: www.jamielpowell.com and @jamielinnpowell.