The Mars Ocean Odyssey, 8 x 8 feet, 1987-2019 Reception October 3, 6pm - 8pm 548 West 28th St. Ground Floor and Mezzanine October 3 - 31 11am - 6pm Stowe is a serious discovery. He is a natural born mystic whose long voyage seems to have been an extended religious transcendental experience-and what came out of it are paintings that are quite intriguing. They are not classifiable in any certain way. They seem to live in a borderline, exploring between the psychotic and the transcendental, spiritual experience. These works definitely come out of what the psychoanalyst Romain Roland referred to in 1927 as, coincidentally, the "Oceanic Feeling." They are densely layered and as a body overlap with so many modern concepts in painting. --Donald Kuspit, Dean of American Art Historians, … [Read more...]