Marie Hines Cowan is a figurative oil painter marrying mythology with colloquial culture. Her
work is narrative, life-sized, and representational, though unconstrained by realism. Pushing
color further than the average eyes sees, Hines Cowan’s work is bold, colorful and painterly, but
also graphic and illustrative.
Hines Cowan has been exhibiting in the US and Europe since 1979. Each fall she opens her
studio in New Rochelle to the public during the town’s Artsfest. Hines Cowan is involved in local
and national art groups such as the National Association of Women Artists, the Portrait Society
of America, and Katonah Museum of Art Artist Association. Hines Cowan’s paintings and poetry
have been published in several literary and art journals as well as academic books.
Having first met Greek mythological personae in literature in the seventies, now Hines Cowan
visualizes them on Manhattan streets and finds them crowding into her studio and informing her
paintings with their stories. Her paintings have been called narrative, but perhaps conversation
is a better description.
Marie Hines Cowan studied art at FIT and Art History and Classical Literature at NYU.
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