B. HATTIESBURG, MS, 1938
Ed McGowin is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, with a practice spanning paintings, sculptures, conceptual art projects, films, writings, and public art installations. In the mid-1960s McGowin became associated with a second generation of artists working within the archetypes of the Washington Color School. McGowin also pioneered the technique of vacuum-forming painted polycarbonate material to form modular wall works.
McGowin has taught at institutions such as the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the State University of New York system. His works are held in the collections of the Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Guggenheim Museum, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Phillips Collection, Washington DC; and the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, among many others.
