Elijah Gowin

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Elijah Gowin (born 1967)[1] is an American art photographer and Professor and Chair of the Department of Media, Art and Design at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.[2] He was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow,[3] during which he worked on a series of photographs, Of Falling and Floating. His work is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[4] He is the son of photographer Emmet Gowin.

Early life and education[edit]

Gowin was born in 1967 in Dayton, Ohio.[5] His father is the photographer Emmet Gowin.[6] He graduated from Davidson College in 1990 with a BA in Art History, and was awarded an MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico (1996).

Life and work[edit]

Gowin has taught at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and University of Missouri, Kansas City.[3][7]

Of Falling and Floating is a series of photographs of people falling, made by collaging scanned photographs and images from the internet and reprinting them as paper negatives.[8] It was exhibited in 2009 at the Griffin Museum of Photography as part of a show called Pull of Gravity.[3][9] Mark Feeney suggested the images could be read either as representing either negative emotions like "anxiety and dislocation" or positively as images of "buoyancy, even jubilation".[8]

His other series of photographs include Hymnal of Dreams,[5] Watering, and Lonnie Holley. Watering used collaged digital images themed around baptism.[10]

He has had solo shows at Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (Virginia Beach, VA), Vermont Center of Photography (Brattleboro, VT), and the Light Factory (Charlotte, NC).[7]

Publications[edit]

  • Maggie. Tin Roof, 2009. With Emmet Gowin.[6]
  • Of Falling and Floating, Tin Roof, 2011.
  • A Shared Elegy, Indiana University Press, 2017

Collections[edit]

Gowin's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
  2. ^ "About". elijah gowin. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  3. ^ a b c "Elijah Gowin". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Elijah Gowin". LACMA. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b Thomas, Mary (March 10, 2000). "Weekend Art Preview: An unseen world Elijah Gowin's photography taps into the supernatural". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  6. ^ a b Platt, Stacy (2009-01-14). "One Thing Done Two Ways: Elijah Gowin and James Luckett on Making..." the space in between. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  7. ^ a b Dow, Jim. "Elijah Gowin". Boston University. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  8. ^ a b Feeney, Mark (February 7, 2009). "Father-and-son photographers reimagine the elements". Boston Globe. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  9. ^ Cortellucci, Romina S. (September 2, 2012). "Take a Drop with the Elijah Gowin 'Of Falling and Floating' Series". Trend Hunter. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  10. ^ Shearer, Benjamin F (2008). Culture and Customs of the United States: Culture. Greenwood. p. 355. ISBN 9780313338779.
  11. ^ a b Pasulka, Nicole. "Between Floating and Falling". The Morning News. Retrieved 6 July 2015.

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