Soli Deo Gloria Studio

Contemporary  Abstract  Full Of Faith

Grace Carol Bomer ‘s concern is the human condition surprised by the grace of God. Motifs and metaphors suggest a narrative that allows the viewer a glimpse into the mystery and transcendence of an eternally relevant story. Her layered mark making and pairing of text and image reference the truth that all things hold together in Christ, who is The Word of God and The Image of God. The Incarnation is the focal point of her work. It is a visual reminder of God’s extravagant grace.

Grace has exhibited nationally and internationally. In the past her work has been featured in Yale Divinity School’s Reflections journal, and selected for Appalachian Corridors, juried by Art in America art critic Eleanor Heartney. Currently it is exhibited in Madrid at GALERIE AZUR. In 2022, four paintings purchased by a South Korean collector will debut at a newly constructed museum.

FINE ART GALLERY

One Who Came on the Waters of Time

Vessels – Nets Of God Series

Exploring the sovereign God who came on the waters of time and whose nets hang in every wild place.

Good-Shepherd

Incarnation – Bending To Love Series

Jesus bent to love. His Incarnation made visible the invisible.

Babel-Burning

Word and Image  / Babel Series

Word and image brought together by The Word. “Babel is in the heart of everyman.”

Neither word not image compete for primacy upon her canvases, nor do they rest in an uneasy tension, Instead, the opposite is true. Word and image find beautifully harmonious and ecstatic expression in her hands.

Fr John Christman SSS, Eucharist and Culture

Grace Carol Bomer professes a vibrant Christian faith in her paintings, but refuses to preach in worn religious imagery.

Professing the Passion of Christianity In Paint - Dale Neal Art Forum, Asheville Citizen Times

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It’s unusual to find an artist who not only has a deep grasp of theology, suffering and joy but can also communicate the mystery and grace of a loving, present, powerful God and redeemer. Her art is visual storytelling that touches your soul.

Michelle Pelsue Michelle Pelsu, Arts & Entertainment Ministries

Like icons, her canvases point beyond, helping us see the true and good and beautiful One who inhabits all her rendering.

Grace Carol Bomer professes a vibrant Christian faith in her paintings, but refuses to preach with worn religious imagery. .. With nearly two millennia of Western artists portraying nativities, pietas, and the passion of Christ, Bomer has a rich tradition to draw on as well as a great many stereotyped images to avoid.

To her credit, she acknowledges the twentieth century and its legacy of abstract modern art, blending abstraction with objective representation to convey her spiritual theme.

ART Forum: Professing the Passion of Christianity in Paint

Anyone who likes their Christian images served up in safe Sunday School settings beware…

There’s no sweet cherubs in the paintings of G. Carol Bomer.Bomer’s art is intensely religious, but it is also modern and abstract.

To Bomer, religious art goes wrong when it tries to swaddle faith in sentimentalism. Bomer says that kind of art misses what she calls ‘the hard parts of life.”It doesn’t get at the whole gospel, which is creation-fall-redemption.’ Bomer said in a telephone interview from her Asheville home. ‘There is a fall. We are hurting people. We need a savior.’

Wesley Young, Salisbury Post

When I look at her work, I see a manifestation of traditional faith through this very contemporary art form. 

Dr. J. Daniel Brown, Center for Faith and the Arts

I have spent a good deal of time contemplating your artwork and it has grown richer for me as I have delved into it. Over the course of this last week I have been writing about your artwork and it has opened up for me in ways I hadn’t expected.

In addition to the “visible and invisible” realities that drew me to your work I am now also very intrigued by your engagement with both “word” and “image”.

Fr. John Christman, SSS, Eucharist & Culture

Grace Carol’s iconic, abstract art—and her articulate witness about what she paints—opened my eyes to the possibility of visual art carrying multiple layers of meaning.

Steve West, World Magazine