Press Release
At the 2019 Armory Show, Philip Martin Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new hand cast and painted aluminum works by Katy Cowan. Katy Cowan's body, her studio and the events in her immediate environment serve as generative subject-matter for her artworks. Colorful and richly textured, Katy Cowan's artworks investigate human experience. Cowan suggests that ideas and objects are both physical and metaphorical. Impressions can be not only literal – like an aluminum cast – but also expressive and elusive. Cowan's work utilizes alteration, repetition, and a conceptual emphasis on material choice.
The Armory Show is located:
Piers 90 & 92 & 94
711 12th Avenue
New York City, NY 10019
Philip Martin Gallery booth is located in the Focus section, Booth F23, Pier 90, curated by Lauren Haynes, Curator of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR.
Public Days
Thursday, March 7, 12–8pm
Friday, March 8, 12–8pm
Saturday, March 9, 12–7pm
Sunday, March 10, 12–6pm
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Katy Cowan (b. 1982, Lake Geneva, WI) received her BFA from University of Puget Sound in 2004 and her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2014. Her work is currently the subject of "Katy Cowan | Pamela Jorden: The Day in the Night" at Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles (through April 20). Cowan had a recent solo exhibition, “Reflected-Into- Themselves-Into-Reflected," at the Lynden Sculpture Garden (Milwaukee, WI). She has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA); Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI); Synchrotron Radiation Center: Home of Aladdin, (Stoughton, WI); Poor Farm (Manawa, WI); Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Green Gallery (Milwaukee, WI); Kate Werble Gallery (New York, NY); Fourteen30 Contemporary (Portland, OR). Cowan's work is in such public and private collections as the Minneapolis Museum of Art (Minneapolis, MN); Lynden Sculpture Garden (Milwaukee, WI); Art in Embassies (Maputo, Mozambique) and Northwestern Mutual Insurance. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Los Angeles Times, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, Contemporary Art Review.LA, Artnet and other publications. She lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
Philip Martin Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11am-6pm and by appointment. For further information and images please contact the gallery at +310-559-0100 or info@philipmartingallery.com.
Philip Martin Gallery
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
+310-559-0100
info@philipmartingallery.com
