Kabuya Pamela Bowens

Throughout her life and work as an artist, Bowens has contended with the potent complexities of memory,

the lightning-filled dome of history, and the evidence of flight, crossings, displacement, and sprawl. Her work has

been a bulwark against and a vehicle for considering what causes people to think and even go off. It has been her

print and scaffold, her compass and span.  It speaks to alienation, nothingness, consanguinity, and connection. It is

her meditation on the alterations of people, evidence, and the past. It protests our cultural preoccupation with choosing

between belonging and not belonging. It questions our logic, our one-track minds, and our circular pursuits even as it

affirms the marvels of being, our collective consciousness, and the inescapable nature of our interdependence. Her 

exhibition of works "Tracks and Bridges" is a multilayered examination of what it means to look around and within

for wholeness, strength, and the meaning of now.

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Monifa A. Love Asante, PhD coordinates the creative writing and graduate

program in English at Bowie State University. An award-winning author

and poet, she frequently writes about art and culture