CONTEMPORARY PAINTER AND SCULPTOR

In Howell’s paintings, the use of color ranges greatly, from a series in all blacks, vibrant rhythmical color studies in blues and greens, sober almost architectural compositions in blacks and whites, and presently a new aerial series of patchworks of cultivated landscapes and blocks of neutral grays, creams, and pale blues inspired by his rethinking of the work of Jackson Pollack for a lecture he gave at the Metropolitan Museum in 2018. “All of my work,” he has written, “is based on spirituality, energy and seeing the whole as made up of objects in ever changing motion.” 
Howell’s triptych painting “Never Forget 2” is in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum collection in New York. Other work is in the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut. His paintings have been shown at the Rockland Center for the Arts (Oct-Nov 2019), the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, and the Museum of the Permian Basin, Texas. His wire sculpture has been exhibited at the Morgan Museum, Lexington, Kentucky (1961).  
Howell speaks and lectures periodically on art, his own evolution as an artist, and the role of vision in art. In 2018, he delivered a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Jackson Pollock. “My blindness,” he has written, “has brought me to the realization that the universe is not how we see it. It is ever changing energy, motion, and regeneration.”