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Eve Fowler ‘Hustler’ Series Portrait Photograph New York 1990s

Eve Fowler (Los Angeles, USA), Untitled Original Color Photograph. Portraits taken outdoors at Meat Packing District &/or at local hustler bars in New York. Printed in darkroom on Kodak Professional Paper. Hustler Series (New York, 1990’s), C-print photograph (printed in a lab / not digital), 11 x 14 inches, AP print, signed.

Appraised at USD$2500.

Offered at $1500

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Eve Fowler was a clear influence on me, in becoming an art dealer. While I lived in New York from 1990 – 2000, I met Eve early on, & this particular series of photographs was what made me decide to become an independent art/photo dealer. I did grunt work in Soho & uptown galleries, which allowed me to have their regular clientele look at Eve’s work, which resulted in a number of sales; my first as a dealer. I consider this work the catalyst to my current career, and I thank Eve for setting me on this path. – Guy Berube, 2014

 
Eve Fowler is a photographer based in Los Angeles. Her pictures explore provocative subject matter — for instance male hustlers, lesbians, or transgendered individuals — but she deliberately supplies no explanatory titles or captions. In her early work, she photographed men who were loners — disconnected sex workers in New York and Los Angeles. She then began photographing androgynous men, which then moved into photographs of longhaired, shirtless androgynous men who resemble some of the transgender women she photographs today.
 
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  • NEW BOOK BY EVE FOWLER: Hustling on the streets of New York and LA
Street photography collides with sexuality and identity in this ’90s series from Eve Fowler
 
“I didn’t want to make a book that explained everything”, says LA photographer Eve Fowler when asked about Hustlers, her ’90s photo series on the male prostitutes of West Village, NY and Santa Monica Boulevard in LA out now via Capricious. The book is captionless, only prefaced with a short bespoke tale, Prosper Street from acclaimed LGBT poet, author and playwright Kevin Killian. The story sucks you in and shakes you up from the off with the matter-of-fact narrative of rent boy, Jesse and his musings on the victim stereotype in sex work and his lover/client Frank who comes bearing ominous news from a hospital check-up. “I didn’t want to have essays about me or my work in the book. So I asked Kevin to write something fictional because I like his writing and I thought his work made sense in this context. It makes the book more like an artwork and less about me”, says Fowler.
 
The lack of verbal prompts as you flick through the nameless faces of these boys jars at first, you feel cheated out of their stories somehow, but by the end it’s that same lack of backstory that frees these hustlers from categorisation, in the same way that Jesse rails against it in Prosper Street. A lot of Fowler’s previous works have also dealt with the crossroads between sexuality and identity – the titillitatingly titled Gloria Hole springs to mind – and with Hustlers there’s a similar sense of other-ness going on, “I think it probably had something to do with coming out of the closet”. The starkly shot portraits offer up a unique take on photography’s enduring fascination with sex workers, stripping away at the lurid glamour and leaving us with a surprisingly intense portal back to those hustling streets.

BIOGRAPHY

b. 1964, Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

1992
MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

1986
BFA, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018
what a slight. what a sound. what a universal shudder., Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, UK
with it which it as it if it is to be, Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017
with it which it as it if it is to be, Participant, New York, NY
with it which it as it if it is to be, one-night screening, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Roof Project, Half Gallery, New York

2016
as it if it is to be, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR

2015
The Difference is Spreading, Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Difference is Spreading, ArtSpace, Sydney, Australia
A Spectacle and Nothing Strange, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2014
IT IS SO, IS IT SO, The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, Houston

2013
A Difference of Very Little Difference, University Art Gallery, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Eve Fowler/Sam Gordon, Feature, New York, NY
Eve Fowler/Sam Gordon, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Eve Fowler/Caroline May, The Apartment, Athens, GA

2012
Fowler/Gordon, USC Roski School of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2011
Two Serious Ladies Passover, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010
Eve Fowler & Anna Sew Hoy, Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR
One Thing I Forgot to Tell You, Horton Gallery (L.E.S. Sundays), New York, NY
Eve Fowler, Apartment 2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Gold Star, Tom Solomon at Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Wimmin by Womyn who love Wymin, with A.L. Steiner, Harvey Levine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Moments of Being: an exhibition based on the writings of Virginia Woolf, Tate St.Ives, Cornwall, UK

2017
Extratextual, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Women to the Front, Lumber Room, Portland, OR
in the hopes of not being considered, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
FOUND: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY
The Brightsiders, Verge Center of the Arts, Sacramento, CA

2016
Pride Goes Before a Fall / Beware of a Holy Whore / Mise en Abyme, Artists Space, New York, NY
Queering the Bibliobject, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Emotional Signs, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2015
Books Fuel Ideas: Lizzi Bougatsos, Eve Fowler and Sam Gordon, Curated by Katerina Llanes and Amanda Keeley, in collaboration with Exile Books

2014
Cherub, curated by Andrew Berardini and Brian Kennon, 2nd Cannons, Los Angeles, CA
Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
LAND Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, Beaumont,CA and Houston, TX

2013
Dig the Dig, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Letters to Los Angeles, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
In the Name of Good Company, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA
In Unison, Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2012
Venice Beach Biennial, part of Made in LA 2014 with the Hammer Museum and LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
B-Out, Andrew Edin Gallery, New York, NY
Fuel for the Fire, Curated by Dawn Kasper, Temporary Space, New York, NY
This is it with it as it is, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Day Break, Emma Grey HQ, Los Angeles, CA
In the evening there is feeling, permanent public art installation, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011
Whole Halves, a collaboration between Two Serious Ladies (Eve Fowler and Anna Sew Hoy) and Mariah Garnett, W/–, New York, NY
Greater Los Angeles, Curated by Joel Mesler, UNTITLED, New York, NY
Gloria Hole, Fireplace Projects, East Hampton, NY
Les Paris Sont Ouverts, Freud Museum, London, UK
Los Angeles Museum of Ceramic Art, ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2010
The California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
50 Artists Photograph the Future, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
A about Bauhaus..harm neu tues, Cardwell Jimmerson, Los Angeles, CA
The Secret Knows, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Austin, TX
Muse, Tulane University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
You Gave Me Brave, curated by Young Chung, S1F, Los Angeles, CA
Ridyculus Hits Bottom, Leo Koenig Gallery, New York, NY
Disorganized, curated by Jacob Robichaux, Museum 52, New York, NY
Inside of Me, Phil, Los Angeles, CA
Twenty Years Ago Today, Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hello Liberty, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
The Whole World is Watching, curated by Irene Tsatsos, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA

2008
Small Things End, Great Things Endure, New Langton Art, San Francisco, CA
The Way We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Les Autres: Araki, Christopherson, and Fowler, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Criteria, Gallery Perdida, Berlin, Germany

2007
Distinctive Messenger, Curated by Simon Watson & Craig Hensala, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shared Women, Organized by A.L. Steiner, Eve Fowler & Emily Roysdon, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Blow Both of Us, curated by Shannon Ebner & Adam Putnam, Participant, New York, NY

2006
Too Much Love, organized by Amy Adler, Angels Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Fantasy of Failed Utopias and a Girl’s Daydream, Kuenstlerhaus, Stuttgart and Videos IM Balhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany
Chaos or Control, curated by James Welling, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Many, Many Guys and Girls All of them Real Beauties, organized by Julian Hoeber, Participant, New York, NY
Ridykeulous, curated by A.L Steiner and Nicole Eisenman Participant, New York, NY

2005
Into Thin Air, curated by Daren Klein, The One Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Editions Fawbush, Conner Contemporary, Washington, DC

2004
Sundown Salon, curated by Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Retreat, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2002
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum, Works on Paper, Los Angeles, CA
A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum, New York, NY

2001
Fresh: The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum, New York, NY
Game Face, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

2000
Representing, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

1999
Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel + O’Connor, New York, NY
Recent Editions From Editions Fawbush, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Changing Faces, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Summer Reading: Photographer’s Fascination: Books, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY

1998
Naked & Famous, New Photography, Jessica Fredricks Gallery, New York, NY
White Room, White Columns, New York, NY
Portraits, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Adolescents, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Coming of Age, White Columns, New York, NY

1996
Portraiture, Contemporary Photographs, White Columns, New York

1992
MFA Thesis Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1988
Traveled to: City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

HONORS AND AWARDS

2017 Art Matters Grant
2009 Printed Matter Awards for Artists
2007 California Community Foundation Award
2005 Art Center College of Design Faculty Enrichment Grant
1998 The Peter Reed Foundation Grant

RESIDENCIES

2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Cambridge, MA
2015 Residential Studio Artist, Artist Space, Sydney, Australia
2013 BOFFO, Fire Island, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
The New Museum, New York, NY

 
 

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