Eve Fowler
Raw Material, installation view at Aupuni SpaceSpring 2018
Honolulu, Oʻahu Hawaiʻi
Having exhibited widely in the U.S. throughout her career, Fowler’s work is included in the collections of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco; and The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
In her own words: “My creative practice hinges on a form of collaboration that has bearing witness at its core. This is manifested through my decades of photographic practice, and through my ongoing work with fellow artists, filmmakers, writers and curators under the rubric of Artist Curated Projects. It is evident in my sustained engagement with the creative work of Gertrude Stein; and it is the motivation behind my archival investigations that bring historically marginalized forms of practice into contemporary conversation.”
Since 2010, Fowler’s work has centered on excerpting, interacting, and re-presenting the poetry of Stein in arresting visual forms. Originally conceived as posters printed by historic Colby Poster Printing Company and affixed to telephone poles amongst other similar signage and blending into the L.A. visual vernacular, Fowler has since realized the work as freeway billboards, bus shelter advertisements, paintings, neon signs, collage, and sculpture; giving the Stein texts further breadth and dimension. Writer Litia Perta comments: “across a distance of nearly a century, Fowler’s work literally commingles with Stein’s: gets close to it, pulls strands out, knits phrases back in, asks us to be near it, to think toward it.”
Public screening of Eveʻs 16mm film with it which it as it if it is to beEve Fowler’s Spring visit with TRADES centered around interactions with fine art students at UH Mānoa, where she kept a studio and conducted visits. Public facing community events included a screening of her recent film, and an artist’s lecture surveying her practice. Along with the student visits, Eve met with several working artists and organized a group show at Aupuni Space in Kakaʻako, as an offsite exhibition of her Los Angeles gallery Artist Curated Projects. Raw Material included works by six emerging and established artists across mediums, provided them widespread exposure, and led to Made in Hawai‘i artworks finding homes in relevant collections locally and abroad.
On O‘ahu, Eve will conduct studio visits with local emerging and established artists of exceptional talent for inclusion in an “Artist Curated Projects” exhibition here. She will spend time working in the studio, preparing works for upcoming exhibitions. We are organizing a public screening of her 16mm film “with it which it as it if it is to be”, as well as a Gertrude Stein focused event with creative writing and poetry professor Dr. Susan Schultz. Eve will also speak to Art and Art History students with Jaimey Hamilton Faris at UH Mānoa.
Studio visit with Raw Material artist Kainoa Gruspe
Studio visit with Raw Material artist Rebecca Maria Goldschidt
Studio visit with Raw Material artist Calvin Shimada
Studio visit with Raw Material artist Nikau Hindin
Studio visit with Raw Material artist Lawrence Seward
Sean Connelly, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Calvin Shimada, Miki Shimiokawa, Aaron Wong, Donnie Cervantes and Eve Fowler.