Press
Selected Reviews and Announcements
Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2020 Winter Grantees Include Carol Rowan
August 16, 2021 — The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced its 2020 winter grantees, including DC-based artist Carol Rowan who also also maintains a studio in Maine. Read more
Carol Rowan Receives Grant to Support Creation of New Work, January 12, 2021
NEW YORK, NY. – The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced its 2020 winter grantees today, including Carol Rowan. Established in 1985 though the generosity of Lee Krasner—one of the foremost abstract expressionist painters of the 20th century—the Foundation is a leader in providing financial resources… Read more
”Community Member Spotlight: Carol Rowan,”
Woodley Park, September 2, 2020
You’ve been an artist for over 40 years. How has your art changed over that time? What do you still want to explore in your art? I am constantly learning and growing as an artist. I focused on realistic graphite drawings for 20 years, then started painting more and more and now look forward to doing some wood and metal sculptural works. Read more
”Three to Watch,” Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, August 2020
by Thomas Connors
If you overlook (as if you could) the vigor of her technique, the drawings of Carol Rowan might suggest a placid kind of enterprise, a sort of plein air ease that just happens to result in these almost crystalline renderings of the world. But from the start of her career, the Connecticut-raised, Pratt Institute-educated artist has been all business … Read more
”Carol Rowan's exquisite graphite renderings now on view at Sam Shaw Contemporary,” ArtDaily.com, June 24, 2020
Sam Shaw Contemporary has announced a solo show of artist Carol Rowan’s works on paper that was installed earlier this week, and will run through July 8th. Rowan’s show marks the official kick-off of the gallery’s annual summer season, which features an ambitious program of rotating exhibitions of artists with regional and national reputations… Read more
”A Shared Past,” Home and Design magazine, July/August 2016
by Tina Coplan
The painting of an unfurled flag is nearly complete. Artist Carol Rowan picks up a small brush and applies a fine line of blue, carefully delineating the soft folds and faded colors of the timeworn Stars and Stripes. … Read more
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Carol Rowan: New Horizons, Vose Gallery, Boston, Mass., 2007
Exhibition catalog with an interview with Marcia L. Vose
From quite early on in my childhood, my hand loved the touch of pencil to paper. I was connected to something I couldn’t understand. Art was a great unknown to me and remains that way today. I do not have a choice in being an artist. I can’t explain how deep the spark is in me. It has always been there. Read more
"Turning Pencil Lead into Gold," New York Daily News, August 21, 1998
By Mila Andre
It’s amazing what can be wrought by a pencil, if the hand that wields it is an artist’s. Case in point is the exhibition at Hollis Taggart Galleries of recent works by Carol Rowan. Read more
“Restoring History,” Star Democrat, Easton, Md. Nov. 19, 1993
Rowan’s Recreation Wins Award from the Met
by Dave Williams
Carol Rowan’s passion is studying the venerated facades of institutions, such as the US Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and Yale University, and “repairing” them -- not with hammer and chisel, but with pencil and paper. Read more
“Black and Light,” Star Democrat, Easton, Md. April 2, 1993
Artist Captures Play of Light in Monochrome Pencil Drawings
by Dave Williams
“I only draw in black and white because I’m interested in light,” she said in a telephone interview. “The tones you can get with a pencil to bring out the light is a lot more (effective) if you leave the color out of it.” Rowan specializes in finely detailed drawings of buildings, especially historic ones. Read more