Grace Carol Bomer

Carol Bomer is an abstract expressionist painter. Her concern is the human condition surprised by the grace of God.

Carol is new to the River Arts District, but she is not new to Asheville. She moved here in 1981 from Kansas where she was an award winning member of the Kansas Watercolor Society. She became involved in the Asheville art community, serving on the Museum Auxiliary Board and winning awards in North Carolina, such as First Place in Art of the Carolinas juried by Charles Stuckey of the Chicago Art Institute and awards in the NCWS. Her work is in private and corporate collections.

See Carol’s Web site www.carolbomer.com for a more detailed CV. 

 Studio: 140D Roberts Street  

Call 828-545-2451 to set up an appointment or stop in anytime, you may find her working!
Web site:  www.carolbomer.com
Online market:
www.1000markets.com/shops/gcarolbomer

Upcoming Events
Layered Meanings  Haywood Community College Gallery   August 26 – Sept 30, 2009

Whitestone Gallery,  Philadelphia, PA 
Oct 24 – Nov 30, 2009

Spirituality in Contemporary Art
Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC  November 2009

Carol teaches mixed media classes in her River Arts District Studio. If you are interested in
a class, please call her at 545-2451 or email gcarolbomer@gmail.com for cost and a mixed media supply list.

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Carol’s work was called a “silent form of poetry” by the Asheville Citizen Times in the 1980s. In the 90s, Dale Neale of the Asheville paper wrote about Bomer’s solo show at Mars Hill College’s Wiezenblatt Gallery, “Anyone who likes their Christian images served up in safe Sunday school settings, beware.” Her work deals with issues of redemption and healing of a broken people who live in a broken world. It is rich with layered meaning and metaphor. For example:

The Parable of the Seed / Incarnation Series

oil & 23Kgold leaf 48" x 48"

m/m 48" x 48"

oil 32" x 26"

After a trip to study in Italy, Carol began to work in mixed media. She incorporated text and manipulated images into her work to investigate the postmodern manipulation of words and images for power. One of her series, Global City Babel, uses this layering of text and image. Her new book about this series is called, The City of God/City of Man.

Global City Babel/ Foundation m/m 30" x 30"	City of God/ City of Man m/m & encaustic 36" x 36"	Tabernacle m/m 36" x 28"
Babel Storm m/m & encaustic 24" x 24"	Babel Grace/Reactor m/m & encaustic 24" x 24"	Babel’s Child I m/m & encaustic 24" x 24"

Her interest in combining word and image has led to a collaboration with Virginia poet Suzanne Rhodes. Although her work has been influenced by Rhodes’ poetry for more than ten years, they are now working together to produce a poetry/art book. Much of Bomer’s new work is related to this collaboration.

Word Breathed oil 54" x 48"	Word Breathed II oil & charcoal 54" x 48"	Bereshith/In the Beginning oil & charcoal 48" x 24"
The Garden, study oil	Tenderly Sown oil & charcoal 36" x 36"	The Gardener oil & charcoal 50" x 36"
Blind Pink, study oil with m/m	Frost, study oil with m/m	Faith, study oil
A Love Unkempt and Blind charcoal 37" x 30"	Touch Me My Gargoyle Heart charcoal 37" x 30"	What a Light Weight This Stone, study oil