John Dowell
Brief Biography
Born: March 25, 1941 - Philadelphia, PA
I have created and exhibited my art for over four decades and I am a Professor
of Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. I have
had 49 one person exhibitions at prestigious venues including the 35th
Venice Biennale, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. My art work is represented in the
permanent collections of 70 museum and public collections, including the
Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City,
the Boston Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Biblioteque
Nationale, Paris France and I was exhibited in the 1975 Whitney Biennial
in New York City.
With the Visual Music Ensemble, I performed concerts in the US and Europe,
using my works on paper as the music scores. I have also created a number
of print commissions, a 30’ceramic wall installation, and a 35’
glass window piece at the Korman Suites in Philadelphia.
In 2001, I received the 14th James Van Der Zee Award from the Brandywine
Workshop, in Philadelphia for a Life Time of Achievement in the Visual
Arts and Teaching and in1999 the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
from Temple University. I also received grants in 1985 and 1975 from the
National Endowment of the Arts, and several from the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, 1985, and 1979 plus a Philadelphia Foundation Grant in 1994,
as well as others.
My work was included in the Chicago Art Institute exhibition “A
Century of Collecting African American Art” and I served as a panelist
on the accompanying round table discussion of the realities of being an
African American artist in 2003. I had work in the invitational exhibition
“A Celebration of Color” at the Benny and Smith Gallery, Banana
Factory, Bethlehem, PA as well as creating two commissioned prints: a
portfolio print for Lafayette college, Master Artist/Master Printmaker
Portfolio Project, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, and The Legacy Project
of the Atelier Towson, Towson University, Towson, MD that were Lithographs
constructed of primarily photographic cityscapes to be used as scores
for concert performance.
My photographs have been added to the collections of the Huston Museum
of Fine Arts, the Fog Museum of Harvard University, RISD Museum, Lehigh
University Museum, Clark University Art Galleries permanent Collection,
Davison Art Center Collection of Wesleyan University. I have been included
in the Photo Reviews International Photographic competition juried by
Phillip Brockman of the Corcoran Museum of Art
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