Adger Cowans
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Adger Cowans | |
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| Born | (1936-09-19) September 19, 1936 (age 89) |
| Alma mater | Ohio University |
| Website | adgercowans |
Adger Cowans is an American fine arts photographer and abstract painter.[1]
Cowans was born in Columbus, Ohio, on September 19, 1936.[2][3] He obtained a Bachelor of Art degree in photography from Ohio University in 1958 and also an alumnus of School of Motion Picture Arts and School of Visual Arts in New York.[4][5] While serving in the United States Navy, he worked as a photographer before moving to New York, where he later worked at Life magazine with photographer Gordon Parks and fashion photographer Henry Clarke.[6] While in New York, he joined the Kamoinge Workshop, an artists collective dedicated to showing the African Diaspora though photography, soon after it was established in 1963. He moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut after leaving New York.[7]
In 2001, he was awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico alla Carriera in recognition of his Distinguished Career at Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art and also a recipient of the John Hay Whitney Fellowship and the Martin Luther King Jr Visiting Scholars Award, Wayne State University.[8][9]
His work has been shown by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Fine Art Museum, the International Museum of Photography, and numerous other art institutions.[10] The legendary photographer Gordon Parks, called him one of the most significant artists of our time and noted, “Adger’s individualism sets him apart, simply because he follows his own convictions”.[11][12] The 2020 Whitney Museum exhibition about the Kamoinge Workshop, Working Together chronicles Cowans' and other founding members' photographs of their communities during the 1960s social changes.[13]
Cowans' work was included in the 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art. [14]
References
- ↑ "Adger Cowans - Artists - Bruce Silverstein". www.brucesilverstein.com. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ Otfinoski, Steven (2014-05-14). African Americans in the Visual Arts. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-0777-6.
- ↑ Edmunds, Allan L. (2004). Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection. Hudson Hills. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-55595-241-9.
- ↑ "Adger Cowans - Biography". Hearne Fine Art. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "Adger Cowans by Carrie Mae Weems - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ Cowans, Adger. "About the Artist". Adger Cowans. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ↑ Lang, Joel (14 February 2021). "Kamoinge Collective". No. Sunday Arts & Style. Hearst Media Services Connecticut LLC.
- ↑ "About". Adger Cowans. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "Adger Cowans". Photography Collections Preservation Project. Archived from the original on 2022-04-16. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "Adger Cowans - Biography". Hearne Fine Art. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "Veteran photographer Adger Cowans is still learning at 81". ppmag.com. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "One on One: Adger Cowans and Hank Willis Thomas". Cultured Magazine. 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop". whitney.org. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ↑ Brookman, Philip; Willis, Deborah (2025). Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985. New Haven London: Yale University Press. p. 253. ISBN 9780300283501.
External links
- 2020 Interview, November 5, 2020 Archived May 23, 2024, at the Wayback Machine Bridgeport Art Trail (site also includes video interview about his 2017 Patterns exhibition at City Lights Gallery.)
- 2022 exhibition, Fairfield University (CT), Adger Cowans: Sense & Sensibility, January 28 - June 18, 2022. Bellarmine Hall Galleries
- Photography Collections Preservation Project Archived 2022-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
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