ROYCE HOWES | New Works on Newspaper | AL’S OFFICE

March 15 - April 17, 2026

VIEW EXHIBITION

In my recent work, the newspaper page, a familiar quotidian object with specific physical characteristics and qualities, is combined with oil paint. When oil paint is applied to newspaper, it fuses with the newsprint and both obscures and reveals texts and photographic images to create a new object, a new image.

Royce Howes received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. He also attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Howes first exhibited in New York in 1982 at the Charles Cowles Gallery.  In 1986, his work was included in the Grace Borgenicht Gallery Invitational Exhibition and in 1987, William S. Lieberman purchased a painting by Howes for the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That same year Werner H. Kramarsky purchased a work on paper, later donated to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Howes’ work was represented by Grace Borgenicht Gallery until the gallery closed in 1995. Royce Howes’ newspaper photo collages were included in Selections, Winter 2001 at The Drawing Center in New York City. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Grant.