BIOGRAPHY

Grace C Bomer attended Dordt University (Iowa) where she received a degree in Secondary Education in English and History, which continues to inform her artwork today. Although she taught middle and high school for six years, her art career began in earnest when she moved to Kansas (1976-1981). And later in North Carolina, where she continued to paint and study art at UNC Asheville. She travelled to Amsterdam, Italy, and Ukraine to study and teaches art workshops, traveling as far as Luxan Fine Art Academy in China. Grace’s studio is in Asheville’s popular River Arts District.

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Recent solo shows (2023-21) include:

Beauty for Ashes, Kairos Gallery, Mount Pleasant, SC, April–June ’21;
Global City Babel, Cairne University Gallery, Langhorne, PA. Sept-Dec. ’21; Transcendence, All Saints Presbyterian, Austin, TX., Nov/Dec. ’21;
and Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill University, NC (4 person) Jan-Feb ’23

STATEMENT

My paintings explore the extravagant mystery of God’s grace using the aesthetic language of parable, storytelling and analogy. I use layers of oil and beeswax, and words and images to stir one’s imagination to consider the eternal drama of God’s love for a broken world. My work which hopes to make visible the invisible is called metaphorical abstraction.

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