Eve Fowler
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Eve Fowler (born 1964) is an American Artist based in Los Angeles.
Fowler was born in Philadelphia, PA and has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2002.{{Cite web|date=2020-01-29|title=Meet LA's Art Community: Eve Fowler Says, "I Learn More When I See Art With Friends"|url=https://hyperallergic.com/539635/meet-las-art-community-eve-fowler/|access-date=2020-06-04|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}} Fowler's most notable work includes her series of texts appropriating Gertrude Stein's poetry, and her portraits of male hustlers in New York and Los Angeles in the 90s.{{cite web |url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/20021/1/hustling-on-the-streets-of-new-york-and-la |title=Hustling on the streets of New York and LA |last=Dolding |first=Sian |date=May 29, 2014 |work=Dazed |access-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531033007/http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/20021/1/hustling-on-the-streets-of-new-york-and-la |archive-date=May 31, 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Mizota |first1=Sharon |title=Eve Fowler imagines Gertrude Stein's words as a visual cacophony |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-eve-fowler-at-mier-gallery-20150525-story.html |newspaper=LA Times |date=27 May 2015 |access-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527233015/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-eve-fowler-at-mier-gallery-20150525-story.html |archive-date=May 27, 2015}} Identifying as a lesbian and feminist, Fowler's work tries to identify what she perceives as male biases in language and culture and reframe them around sex-positive, feminist, and queered images.{{cite web |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-eve-fowler-appropriates-gertrude-stein-at-mier-gallery |title=Eve Fowler Appropriates Gertrude Stein at MIER Gallery |date=12 June 2015 |work=Artsy |access-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001000637/https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-eve-fowler-appropriates-gertrude-stein-at-mier-gallery |archive-date=October 1, 2015}} For example, her 2005 portrait of performance artist K8 Hardy recalls Austrian feminist, VALIE EXPORT's 1969 work Action Pants: Genital Panic by depicting Hardy in her studio, sitting wide legged with the crotch cut out of her jeans.{{Cite book|last1=Lord|first1=Catherine|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1090678799|title=Art & queer culture|last2=Meyer|first2=Richard|date=2019|isbn=978-0-7148-7834-8|language=en|oclc=1090678799}}
Biography
Fowler received her BA in Journalism from Temple University in 1986, and her MFA in photography from Yale University in 1992.{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/eve-fowler/biography|title=Eve Fowler Biography – Eve Fowler on artnet}} Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Hammer Museum, Yerba Buena Center, and San Francisco Museum of Art.{{Cite web|url=https://www.culturedmag.com/eve-fowler/|title=Artist Eve Fowler Is a Los Angeles Legend|date=2016-10-07|website=Cultured Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-03}}
Following her education, Fowler spent four years portraying" gay male hustlers" working the streets in New York and Los Angeles, for which she first gained recognition in the art world.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artspace.com/eve-fowler/any-one-she-is-kissing|title=any one she is kissing, Eve Fowler |website=Artspace |language=en |access-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128093737/http://www.artspace.com/eve-fowler/any-one-she-is-kissing |archive-date=January 28, 2021}}
Work
= "Shared Women" February - April 2007 =
A group exhibition hosted by the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE),{{cite web |url=http://welcometolace.org/lace/shared-women/ |title=Shared Women |website=Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition |access-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915005536/http://welcometolace.org/lace/shared-women/ |archive-date=September 15, 2015}} featuring Fowler's filmworks alongside the works of feminist artists A.L. Steiner and Emily Roysdon. Emphasis was placed on themes such as cronyism, feminism, nepotism, elements of reaffirmation that depended on the reorganization of history from portraying ‘the women’ and ‘the gays,’ as outsiders to now insiders.
= "Wimmin by Womyn who love Wymin" January - March 2006 =
A two-person exhibition at the Harry Levine Gallery in Culver City, California, "Wimmin by Womyn who love Wymin" featured the works of A.L. Steiner and Fowler. Both artists worked on a photo projected involving taking different pictures of the same women, juxtaposing themes depicting calm sexual subjects from rough, unmounted, and funny "snapshot porntraitrure".{{cite journal|last1=Segade|first1=Alex|title=Eve Fowler & A.L. Steiner|journal=Artus|date=2006|issue=13|page=4}}
= "With it which it as it if it is to be" November - December 2016 =
This was a film called with it which it as it if it is to be.{{Cite web |url=https://www.paris-la.com/archive2008-2020/tag/with-it-which-it-as-it-if-it-is-to-be-fowler/ |title=Tag Archives: with it which it as if it is to be |website=Paris LA |access-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605005143/https://www.paris-la.com/archive2008-2020/tag/with-it-which-it-as-it-if-it-is-to-be-fowler/ |archive-date=June 5, 2023}} It was screened at [https://www.moca.org/ MOCA] in 2017 and later had a part two exhibition at the Morán Morán.{{Cite web|last=Fowler|first=Eve|title=These Sounds Fall Into My Mind|url=https://moranmorangallery.com/exhibition/these-sounds-fall-into-my-mind/|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Morán Morán|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202304/eve-fowler-90284 |title=Eve Fowler |last=Robichaux |first=Gordon |website=Artforum |access-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402051335/https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202304/eve-fowler-90284 |archive-date=April 2, 2023}}{{Cite web|last=Fowler|first=Eve|title=with it which it as it if it is to be: A film by Eve Fowler|url=https://www.moca.org/program/with-it-which-it-as-it-if-it-is-to-be-a-film-by-eve-fowler|access-date=2021-04-09|website=www.moca.org}} The film was used to capture working artists in their studios as well as shine light on the “intimate spaces of women’s art work” as written by Rachel Valinsky.{{Cite journal |last=Valinsky |first=Rachel |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/5aaf945458aac8cb3906bf3f37cf4ea6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=46091 |title=Eve Fowler: with it which it as it if it is to be |journal=Millennium Film Journal |volume=65 |date=2017 |pages=16–19 |access-date=June 4, 2023}} This film also intended to feature different artists from Gertude Stein's writing, “Many Many women,” (1910). Fowler’s intentions were to create a piece that was about demonstrating the art of creation.{{Cite web |url=https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/ywawmy/word-play-and-womens-work-with-eve-fowler |title=Word Play and Women's Work with Eve Fowler |author=Eliza Harper Wallace |date=September 6, 2019 |website=Garage Vice |access-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205053444/https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/ywawmy/word-play-and-womens-work-with-eve-fowler |archive-date=December 5, 2019}}
= "These Sounds Fall Into My Mind" September - October 2019 =
This exhibition at the Morán Morán includes a film entitled with it which it as it if it is to be, Part II, a video that shares the same name as the exhibition, and six wall pieces. This exhibition focuses on the feminist perspective on text, language and art. Fowler's film is 33 minutes long and has documented 20 female artists in the later stages of their careers reading Gertrude Stein’s Many Many Women. The wall pieces are stills taken from the video and were made with car paint and aluminum.{{Cite web|title=These Sounds Fall Into My Mind|url=https://moranmorangallery.com/exhibition/these-sounds-fall-into-my-mind/|access-date=2020-06-04|website=Morán Morán|language=en-US}}
Awards
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY, NY, The Roy Lichtenstein Award, 2022
- John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship 2021
- Printed Matter Awards for Artists (2009){{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/printed-matter-announces-its-awards-for-artists-23087|title=Printed Matter Announces Its Awards for Artists|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- California Community Foundation Award (2007){{cite news|last1=Muchnic|first1=Suzanne|title=15 local visual artists will be named fellows; To boost L.A.'s art scene, the California Community Foundation will award $275,000 to a diverse group today|issue=HOME EDITION|newspaper=LA Times|date=15 June 2007|id={{ProQuest|422215719}}}}
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- The New Museum, New York City, NY
In 2007, Fowler received the California Community Foundation Award for her photographic work that compassed the variety of aesthetic approaches, disciplines, and reflected the eclectic character of the Los Angeles contemporary art scene.
Fowler is also a recipient of the 2017 Art Matters grant, and was a 2019 fellow with Harvard's Radcliffe Institute.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1638/screening-em-with-it-which-it-as-it-if-it-is-to-be-part-ii-em-by-artist-eve-fowler|title=POSTPONED: Screening: with it which it as it if it is to be, Part II by Artist Eve Fowler|website=www.newmuseum.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/eve-fowler|title=Eve Fowler|date=2018-04-05|website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}
References
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External links
- Interview with Eve Fowler about [http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/391/6827 A Spectacle and Nothing Strange]
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