Craig Cowan [1947-1993] Biography


EDUCATION
 1969  B.A. with Honors in English, Indiana University
 1969-72

 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (Ford Foundation)

 Postgraduate study at U.C. Berkeley, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English literature

 1976-88

 Photography studies: Self-taught

 Honorary Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 1995

 Craig Cowan: A Photographic Retrospective, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

 Concrete Abstractions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Ca.

 1993  Apollo and Dionysus- Two Views of the Male Figure, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.
 1991  Concrete Abstractions, Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, Ca.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 1995

 "Present Art III," Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 "Forms II," Platinum Plus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 "The World of Photography Exposition," Indianapolis, In.

 1994

 "Nudes," Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.

 "Trees," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, Ca.

 1993

 "Present Art II," Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

 "Platinum Nudes," Platinum Plus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 1992

 "Present Art," Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

 "bare essentials," Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

 1991

 Group Exhibition, Wessel-O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY

 "Hard Times," Jack Glenn Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

 1990

 Angel Art: Auction, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

 "The Nude- Classic and Erotic," Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, Wa.

 1989  "10," Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

PUBLICATIONS

 1995  Cowan, Craig COWAN, St. Martin's Press, New York, January 1995, 64 pgs. (fifty four-color reproductions)
 1994  Los Angeles Nude, edited by Hisaka Kojima, published by Seibundo Shinkosha, Japan, 1994
 1993

 Edge Magazine, cover and pages 48-49, April 21, 1993, Issue 255.

 Roderick Grant: "Concrete Abstractions," Journal of the Taliesin Fellows, Issue 9, Winter 1992-93 (review)

 Robin Fields: "A Facade In Focus," Metropolis, April 1993 (review)

 Michael Webb: "The Wright Stuff," L.A. Architect, Dec 92/Jan 93 (review)

 1992  Cowan, Craig "Concrete Abstractions: Details of Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, California," Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1992, 54pp.
 1991

 "Lust- The Body Politic," Liberation Publications, Los Angeles, Ca., 1991

 L.A. Style, April 1991

 1989  Interior Design, Volume 4, 1989
 1988  "Best of Photography," 1988
 1975  "Poetry," Chicago, February 1975


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