Global InformationEileen Cowin information
Eileen Cowin | |
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| Born | 1947 Brooklyn, New York, US |
| Education | IIT Institute of Design, State University of New York New Paltz |
| Known for | Photography, Video, Installation art, Conceptual art |
| Awards | National Endowment for the Arts, California Community Foundation, Public Art Fund, Sundance Film Festival |
| Website | eileencowin |
Eileen Cowin (born 1947) is a Los Angeles–based artist known for photography, video and mixed-media installations that draw on the language of mass media and art history and explore the relationship between narrative, fiction and non-fiction, memory and experience.[1][2][3] Associated with the 1970s Los Angeles experimental photography scene and the Pictures Generation artists, her work combines familiar human situations and carefully chosen gestures, expressions and props to create enigmatic images whose implied, open-ended stories viewers must complete.[4][5][6] Cowin has exhibited in more than forty solo shows in the United States and abroad, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Armory Center for the Arts and Contemporary Arts Center.[7][8][9] Her work is included in more than forty institutional collections, including LACMA,[10] the J. Paul Getty Museum,[11] Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago,[12] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),[13] and Smithsonian American Art Museum.[14][15] She has been recognized with awards and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, LACMA, the City of Los Angeles (COLA), Public Art Fund (New York), and the Sundance and USA film festivals.[9][16][17][15] New York Times critic Andy Grundberg wrote that her multi-image work "sets up a tension between the familiar and the mysterious, creating a climate of implied danger, sexual intrigue and violence" in which clues abound to intimate various narratives.[18] Jody Zellen observed that Cowin "manipulates the conventions of photography, film, and video to tell a different kind of story—one that explores where truth and fiction merge, yet presents no conclusions. Cowin's work provokes."[19]
- ^ Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "Eileen Cowin Papers," Archives of American Art Journal, Spring 2016, p. 86-87. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ McGovern, Thomas. "Still (And More to Come)," Afterimage, May/June 2000.
- ^ Knight, Christopher. "Revealing More Than Meets the Eye," Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2000.
- ^ Heartney, Eleanor. "Eileen Cowin at Jayne H. Baum," Art in America, April 1989.
- ^ Durant, Mark Alice. "Eileen Cowin", in Still (and all) Eileen Cowin 1971-1998, Pasadena, CA: Armory Center for the Arts, 2000).
- ^ Zellen, Jody, "Double Take: Narrative Interventions in Photography," Afterimage, March 2012.
- ^ Smithsonian Archives of American Art. "Eileen Cowin papers, 1961-2015," Collections. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Museum of Contemporary Photography. "Eileen Cowin," People. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ a b Armory Center for the Arts. Still (and all) Eileen Cowin 1971-1998, Pasadena, CA: Armory Center for the Arts, 2000).
- ^ Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Eileen Cowin," Collections. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ J. Paul Getty Museum. "Eileen Cowin," Artists, Collection. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Art Institute of Chicago. "Eileen Cowin," Artists. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Eileen Cowin," Artists. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Eileen Cowin," Artists. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ a b Los Angeles Artworks. "Justice, Advocacy and Art," Artists, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Wilson, William. "'COLA' Puts Spotlight on Local Winners," Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1998. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Public Art Fund. "Untitled, Eileen Cowin,". Exhibitions. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Grundberg, Andy. "Amid Train Data, Images of Danger and Intrigue," The New York Times, August 17, 1990. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Zellen, Jody. "Eileen Cowin," Artscene, April 2000. Retrieved June 27, 2019.