Elijah Gowin News

Dolphin Opening Reception, May 14

2010-05-21T20:42:00.000-07:00

The recent May exhibition at Dolphin includes work by Del Harrow,Anthony Baab,Robin Beard, Justin Gainan, Jorge García Almodóvar, Elijah Gowin, Michael Krueger and Pard Morrison, with a One Night Exhibition & Performance by Davin Watne, The Long Winter.

This is the first time photographs from my new series "Into the Sun" have been shown. More information and images can be found here.

Artist Visit to University of North Dakota

2010-04-26T08:59:00.000-07:00

A short video of the trip to Grand Forks, North Dakota and the Department of Art and Design at the University of North Dakota. Many thanks to my host, Assistant Professor of photography Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith, other welcoming faculty and of course the students. Also included in this video are some images from the first annual UND photography exhibition that I enjoyed curating. Congratulations to awarded artists Areca Roe, Linda Alterwitz, Megan Jacobs and Lyssa Palu-ay. Read more here.

2009-12-16T11:29:00.000-08:00

Collector's Edition prints available at Light Work

This winter Light Work at Syracuse University is offering two different prints from the "Hymnal of Dreams" series as well as the "Maggie" book as apart of their 2010 Subscription program. Become a member to support this great arts organization.

"This year's Master Print Editions category features two prints by Elijah Gowin. Only twenty-five prints are available for each image. Due to the very limited editions of these prints, we encourage our customers to place their order early to ensure that the print of their choice is still available. Both editions are offered exclusively to Contact Sheet subscribers for $450 each or as part of the Benefactor Offer. The prints are shipped in 16 x 20" mats ready for framing or for archival storage. All print purchases include a complimentary, one-year subscription to Contact Sheet." (lightwork.org website) Read more..

New Winter Books

2009-11-30T18:43:00.000-08:00

Tin Roof Press has an updated website to show off two new book offerings for the winter season.

First, The Heaviest Flower, features longtime friends and colleagues Colby Caldwell and Elijah Gowin in a catalogue produced to coincide with their exhibition at Urban Culture's Paragraph gallery in Kansas City. Produced in a small edition, this 80 page soft-bound book offers 77 color images and an insightful introduction essay by Kate Hackman.

The second book offering, Hymnal of Dreams, is actually an older catalogue from 2001 that is being reintroduced and made available exclusively through our website. This 32 page, 8 1/2" x 9" book includes 15 wonderfully printed tritone photographs.

For more information, book previews and purchase visit tinroofpress.com

Heaviest Flower Installation

2009-11-18T15:41:00.000-08:00

The Heaviest Flower Reception

2009-10-18T22:20:00.000-07:00

The Urban Culture Project's Paragraph Gallery is excited to host The Heaviest Flower, a two-person exhibition of recent photographic work by longtime friends and peers Elijah Gowin and Colby Caldwell. Tied together through their innovative inquiry of the materiality of photography—both artists use painstaking and elaborate processes for reaching their final images – the exhibition circles around themes of anxiety, loss, and the tenuous beauty of living. An 80-page, full-color catalogue is being published by Tin Roof Press in conjunction with the exhibition.

The full press release can be found here.

Paragraph Gallery: The Heaviest Flower Installation

2009-10-18T21:58:00.000-07:00

Colby Caldwell and Elijah Gowin setting up two person show at Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City.

Missouri Bank "Artboards" Unveiled

2009-06-07T13:56:00.000-07:00

Commissioned Images by Kansas City artist Elijah Gowin

NEW MISSOURI BANK CROSSROADS “ARTBOARDS” TO DEBUT FIRST FRIDAY IN JUNE

On view this summer in Kansas City as latest installment of

Missouri Bank’s Art through Architecture project

Elijah Gowin will present two west-facing images from his Of Falling & Floating series, which combine aspects of traditional photography with digital imaging technology. Each image features a single figure set against a backdrop of blue sky punctuated by wispy clouds. These ambiguous images—are the figures dropping from the sky? being lifted upward from the earth? —invite a range of associations and will offer the public an opportunity to invent their own narratives. Gowin’s images might be seen as poignant meditations on personal and societal anxiety during a time of global change and crisis, as evocations of existential uncertainty, or as portraits of escape or release.

The Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch, 125 Southwest Boulevard,Kansas City, is slated to debut four new large-scale commissioned images, by Kansas City based artists Elijah Gowin and Emily Sall, on its “Artboards” in time for First Friday June 5, 2009. An Art through Architecture “Art Achievement project, the Missouri Bank “Artboards” launched last fall, when the building’s existing double-sided billboards were renovated and converted into a highly visible site for work by area artists as part of the bank’s purchase and renovation of the building to house its Crossroads Branch.

About the “Artboards”: The Missouri Bank “Artboards” project began last fall, when the building’s existing double-sided billboards were renovated and converted into a highly visible site for work by area artists as part of Missouri Bank’s purchase and renovation of the building to house its Crossroads Branch. Every four months, the boards will display a set of newly commissioned artworks, produced as digital prints on ECO-flex, a new, “green” billboard material.

Emmet Gowin Reception at Pace/MacGill

2009-02-24T05:51:00.000-08:00

Winter Reviews and Interviews

2009-02-12T19:17:00.000-08:00

Reviews

ArtNews

Boston Globe

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Interviews

Griffin Museum of Photography Reception

2009-02-03T08:57:00.000-08:00

Page Bond Gallery- "Maggie" Opening Reception

2009-01-13T13:47:00.000-08:00

"Maggie" Makes Photo Book of Year List

2009-01-12T15:46:00.000-08:00

"Maggie" was awarded a vote for favorite photo book of the year in Photo-Eye's Best of 2008 awards. This year's list marks its 30th anniversary and is available online at: www.photoeye.com/magazine/Bestof2008/2/

"Maggie" is available in these fine independent book stores as well as online at tinroofpress.com.

Photo Eye, Santa Fe, NM

Arcana: Book on the Arts, Santa Monica, CA

Dashwood Books, New York, NY
Timothy Whelen Photography, Rockport, ME

Exhibitions and Events

2008-12-09T15:48:00.000-08:00

Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA. Maggie, January 9-February 11, 2009.

Artist talk and book signing January 9th at 6pm with reception to follow.

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. January 29-March 28, 2009.

Paris Photo 2008

2008-12-09T14:38:00.000-08:00

November is the Month of Photography in France and Paris Photo took stage from November 13-16. Japan was the honored guest this year, with many Japanese publishers showing recent books. I was introduced to Tokyo publisher and gallery Tosei-Sha with the help of photographer friends Reiko Imoto and James Nakagawa (pictured above). Hope to see everyone again soon.

"Maggie" book released by Tin Roof Press

2008-09-12T15:30:00.000-07:00

Tin Roof Press, founded by Elijah Gowin, is proud to announce the release of Maggie. Produced as a collaborative family effort by Emmet and Elijah Gowin, and with a text by Edith Gowin, Maggie brings together two generations to honor a beloved, elderly aunt, 98 year old Margaret Cooper. This beautifully printed book of 24 tritone and color photographs features selections from Emmet Gowin’s early photographs of Maggie and her extended family from the 1960s and 1970s, which includes both classic favorites and works that have never before been published. Elijah Gowin contributes photographs from his series Hymnal of Dreams (1994-2004) in which Maggie figures prominently in dreamlike and whimsically constructed scenes. Edith Gowin’s heartfelt introduction weaves together personal recollections while also providing a cultural backdrop for all the images. Together, father and son present an extended portrait of a remarkable woman whose unique personality and presence inspired two different generations. Maggie celebrates the ties that bind time, place, and family history.

More information, previews and purchase of the book can be accessed at tinroofpress.com.

Printing "Maggie" Book in Germany

2008-07-18T19:23:00.000-07:00

The Gowin family have teamed up to produce a new book,Maggie, (due out in September from Tin Roof Press) and Emmet and Elijah were recently printing at Cantz press in Germany.

The first image shows the plate used to print the tri-tone images. Other photos are from on press or at the Scheufelen paper mill located outside of Stuttgart. They have been making paper since 1855 and produce one the best offset printing papers for photographic reproduction called PhoeniXmotion. The Xantur version of this paper is natural white and the paper that Maggie is printed on.

Guggenheim Fellowship

2008-06-11T09:09:00.000-07:00

(April 5th, 2008 from robertmann.com): Robert Mann Gallery would like to congratulate Elijah Gowin, recently awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. Gowin, whose exhibition Of Falling & Floating was at Robert Mann Gallery in 2007, joins an illustrious group: previous Guggenheim Fellows include Ansel Adams, W. H. Auden, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty. For more information visit the Guggenheim Fellowship website.