Night and Holes Rope (Galactic Drawing Position)
2017
Oil and enamel on cast bronze
51.5 x 21 x 1 inches, 130.81 x 53.34 x 2.54 centimeters
Rag and Shadow Rope (Resting Position)
2017
Oil on cast bronze
8 x 41.5 x 1 inches, 20.32 x 105.41 x 2.54 centimeters
2017
Oil on cast bronze
8 x 41.5 x 1 inches, 20.32 x 105.41 x 2.54 centimeters
Revised Sketch for Wheels and Scales and Spray Rope (Walking Position)
2017
Oil, watercolor, enamel and graphite on paper
7.25 x 5.25 inches, 18.42 x 13.34 centimeters
Ropes and Chains and Dusk Variation
2017
Enamel spray paint on cast bronze, braided rope
63 x 10 x 4 inches, 160.02 x 25.4 x 10.16 centimeters
Test and Path and Spiral Variation
2017
Oil and enamel spray paint on cast bronze, braided rope
60 x 84 x 1 inches, 152.4 x 213.36 x 2.54 centimeters
2017
Oil and enamel spray paint on cast bronze, braided rope
60 x 84 x 1 inches, 152.4 x 213.36 x 2.54 centimeters
BiographyBorn 1982 in Lake Geneva, WI
Lives and work in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2014 MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2004 BFA, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Reflected-Into-Themselves-Into-Reflected, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI
On Ropes and Bronze...,Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Studio, The Sketch, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
BRICKED, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound,Tacoma, WA
LONGS/HAPPENS, The Green Gallery South, Oak Park, IL
Compressional(s), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Togetherers, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Lean-Twos, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Eyes to the Unknown, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2008
Gestural, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago, IL
2007
New Paintings, Caro d’Offay Gallery, Chicago IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
2018
Do Something To It. Do Something Else To It. Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
EDDYSROOM @ Usable Space,, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
Reunion Tour, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Some of Our Favorite Things, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2017
As if Form Were Some Pitcher: Katy Cowan, Sara Cwynar, Elizabeth Jaeger, Willa Nasatir, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Irene with an I, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
2016
TOP HEAVY Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Skip Tracer, M. LeBlanc Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wisconsin Triennial 2016, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Jack and Diane, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Memory Theater, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR
Home Improvement, Bahamas Biennale, Detroit, MI
2015
The Great Good Place, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
Uncanny, MuzeuMM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening, Sector 2337, organized by Green
Lantern, Chicago, IL
Great Poor Farm Experiment VII, Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
2014
work : work – Katy Cowan & Michael Milano, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
False Scent, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Katy Cowan and Ross Iannatti, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
The Fifth Wall, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2013
MAS ATTACK, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
GLAMFA, University of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Come As You Are…, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA
Snake Road, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2012
GLAMFA, University of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2011
Living With Them, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
2010
Agency, Agency Gallery, London, UK
Braided Bread, The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago, IL
Love and Heartbreak, Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009
You Can Build a House, The Pigeon Wing, London, UK
Sandusky, Caro d’Offay Gallery, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Krug, Simone. "Katy Cowan at Cherry and Martin," Contemporary Art Review.LA, July 27, 2017.
Picard, Caroline (ed.). Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening, The Green Lantern Press, May 2017.
Neuendorf, Henri. "8 LA-Based Emerging Artists to Keep on Your Radar," Artnet News, January 26, 2017.
2016
Burt-Tilden, Allison. "A Souk Inspired A-Frame in Portland, OR." Design Sponge, September 2016.
2015
Will, Rachel. “Katy Cowan Poses Essential Questions Through Material Decisions,” Artsy Editorial, Nov. 21st, 2015.
Mizota, Sharon. “Katy Cowan: Art about art, with a playful side,” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2015.
Gyorody, Andrea. "Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better," ArtForum, September 2015.
Wu, Su. “Doing It Wrong: Cherry and Martin’s New Ceramics Show
Upends Convention,” Wallpaper*, August 28, 2015.
Rus, Mayer. “An L.A. Exhibition Explores the Unpredictable Nature of
Ceramics,” Architectural Digest, August 18, 2015.
Cowan, Katy. “Altered Drawings” in Grateful Dead Takeover: A Collection
of Artists Writing Inspired by the Grateful Dead, Independently Published.
Morris, Matt. “Eye Exam: Even Formalist Artistry is for Living,”
New City Art, January 4, 2015.
2014
Katy Cowan + Emily Green: ACRE Basketball Game New
Crafts Artists in Action, Boston, MA: Golden Arrows Publication.
2013
“Pledging Artistic Friendship: 2 of a Kind,” review by Caroline Picard,
ART 21 (online), July 16, 2013.
“Katy Cowan,” interview by LVL3 Gallery (online), February 27, 2013.
Cowan, Scott. "Style and Interpretation: The Inevitability of Banality in a 'Contemporary Art," ThanAssuming, February 18, 2013 (online).
Lives and work in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2014 MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2004 BFA, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Reflected-Into-Themselves-Into-Reflected, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI
On Ropes and Bronze...,Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Studio, The Sketch, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
BRICKED, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound,Tacoma, WA
LONGS/HAPPENS, The Green Gallery South, Oak Park, IL
Compressional(s), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Togetherers, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Lean-Twos, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Eyes to the Unknown, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2008
Gestural, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago, IL
2007
New Paintings, Caro d’Offay Gallery, Chicago IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Katy Cowan | Pamela Jorden: The Day in the Night, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
Do Something To It. Do Something Else To It. Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
EDDYSROOM @ Usable Space,, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
Reunion Tour, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Some of Our Favorite Things, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2017
As if Form Were Some Pitcher: Katy Cowan, Sara Cwynar, Elizabeth Jaeger, Willa Nasatir, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Irene with an I, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
2016
TOP HEAVY Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Skip Tracer, M. LeBlanc Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wisconsin Triennial 2016, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Jack and Diane, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Memory Theater, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR
Home Improvement, Bahamas Biennale, Detroit, MI
2015
Try again. Fail again. Fail better: Katy Cowan, Takuro Kuwata, William J. O’Brien, Adam Silverman, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
Condensed Matter Community, Synchrotron Radiation Center: Home of Aladdin, Stoughton, WIThe Great Good Place, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
Uncanny, MuzeuMM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening, Sector 2337, organized by Green
Lantern, Chicago, IL
Great Poor Farm Experiment VII, Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
2014
work : work – Katy Cowan & Michael Milano, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
False Scent, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Katy Cowan and Ross Iannatti, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
The Fifth Wall, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2013
MAS ATTACK, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
GLAMFA, University of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Come As You Are…, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA
Snake Road, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2012
GLAMFA, University of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2011
Living With Them, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
2010
Agency, Agency Gallery, London, UK
Braided Bread, The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago, IL
Love and Heartbreak, Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009
You Can Build a House, The Pigeon Wing, London, UK
Sandusky, Caro d’Offay Gallery, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Krug, Simone. "Katy Cowan at Cherry and Martin," Contemporary Art Review.LA, July 27, 2017.
Picard, Caroline (ed.). Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening, The Green Lantern Press, May 2017.
Neuendorf, Henri. "8 LA-Based Emerging Artists to Keep on Your Radar," Artnet News, January 26, 2017.
2016
Burt-Tilden, Allison. "A Souk Inspired A-Frame in Portland, OR." Design Sponge, September 2016.
2015
Will, Rachel. “Katy Cowan Poses Essential Questions Through Material Decisions,” Artsy Editorial, Nov. 21st, 2015.
Mizota, Sharon. “Katy Cowan: Art about art, with a playful side,” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2015.
Gyorody, Andrea. "Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better," ArtForum, September 2015.
Wu, Su. “Doing It Wrong: Cherry and Martin’s New Ceramics Show
Upends Convention,” Wallpaper*, August 28, 2015.
Rus, Mayer. “An L.A. Exhibition Explores the Unpredictable Nature of
Ceramics,” Architectural Digest, August 18, 2015.
Cowan, Katy. “Altered Drawings” in Grateful Dead Takeover: A Collection
of Artists Writing Inspired by the Grateful Dead, Independently Published.
Morris, Matt. “Eye Exam: Even Formalist Artistry is for Living,”
New City Art, January 4, 2015.
2014
Katy Cowan + Emily Green: ACRE Basketball Game New
Crafts Artists in Action, Boston, MA: Golden Arrows Publication.
2013
“Pledging Artistic Friendship: 2 of a Kind,” review by Caroline Picard,
ART 21 (online), July 16, 2013.
“Katy Cowan,” interview by LVL3 Gallery (online), February 27, 2013.
Cowan, Scott. "Style and Interpretation: The Inevitability of Banality in a 'Contemporary Art," ThanAssuming, February 18, 2013 (online).
Exhibitions
The Armory Show
New York, NY
March 7 - 10, 2019
Katy Cowan | Pamela Jorden: The Day in the Night
March 2 - April 20, 2019
Do Something To It. Do Something Else To It.
Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,
April 28-May 26, 2018
The Armory Show
New York, NY
March 8 - 11, 2018
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami, FL
December 7-10, 2017
On Ropes and Bronze...
June 24 - August 19, 2017
The Armory Show
New York, NY
March 3-6, 2016
Try again. Fail again. Fail better: Katy Cowan, Takuro Kuwata, William J. O’Brien, Adam Silverman
August 22 - October 10, 2015
Compressional(s)
February 28 - March 28, 2015
Katy Cowan and Ross Iannatti,
May 31 - July 3, 2014
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