Work by K-State architecture professor Larry Bowne on display at Chang Gallery

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Thursday, December 7, 2006

WORK BY K-STATE ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR LARRY BOWNE ON DISPLAY AT CHANG GALLERY

MANHATTAN -- Drawings by architect, artist and Kansas State University faculty member Larry Bowne are now on display at K-State's Chang Gallery in Seaton Hall.

Sponsored by the K-State College of Architecture, Planning and Design, "The Expressive Line: Twelve Months of Drawing" will be exhibited until Friday, Dec. 22, and again from Jan. 2-12, 2007. The Chang Gallery is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, but the gallery will be closed for the holidays from Dec. 23 to Jan. 1, 2007.

A public reception for the exhibit will be 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at the gallery.

The exhibition showcases graphic artifacts prepared in 2005 and 2006 by Bowne, principal of Larry Bowne Architects and associate professor of architecture at K-State. Works on display include sketches, prints, line drawings, photomontages, computer-aided drafting and graphic layouts for several publications.

According to Bowne, the work explores the way architects use images not only to explore ideas, emotions and sensations, but also to communicate their discoveries to others. The work ranges from highly abstract, text-based sketches and drawings to precisely realized measured and dimensioned fabrication drawings. Organized thematically rather than chronologically, each wall in the display contains a separate theme: travel, texts and scrawls, figures and designs. The exhibition includes recent sketches, as well as larger format works.

Bowne joined K-State in fall 2003. After earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California-Los Angeles and a master of architecture from Harvard University, he served an internship in Boston and New York City. He opened a small partnership in New York in 1997. The firm, B&R Projects, prepared designs for projects in New York, as well as elsewhere in the United States and abroad, including commissions in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zurich, Switzerland; and Kosovo. While the firm worked primarily on New York City residential apartments, the firm also designed retail, commercial and public spaces. Bowne has been principal of Larry Bowne Architects since 2003, first in New York and now in Manhattan.

His design work has been published and exhibited in multiple venues, including magazine articles in Interiors, Dwell and the Village Voice, as well as exhibitions at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Marvin Hall, University of Kansas; and K-State's Chang Gallery. Bowne also has two upcoming segments on the HGTV program, "Small Space, Big Style."

Bowne has worked with students on various design/build projects, including a renovation of Dickens Hall on the K-State campus; a chicken coop in Rose Hill as part of the ABC show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"; and the House of Dance and Feathers in New Orleans. These projects have received exposure in multiple venues, including a forthcoming magazine article in Architectural Record, exhibitions at the 10th Venice Biennale in fall 2006, and forthcoming at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in spring and summer 2007. Bowne's work also has received media coverage on the Weather Channel and National Public Radio.