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Stephen Nowlin is an American curator/artist whose practice superimposes art and science and is associated with the national ArtScience movement. He is a Vice President at Art Center College of Design and founding director of the college's Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery.
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- Ray eames in the spotlight stephen nowlin
- Stephen nowlin experimental impulse interview 2011
- Education and ArtScience
- Curatorial ArtScience
- Recognition
- References
Stephen nowlin experimental impulse interview 2011
Education and ArtScience
Stephen Nowlin was born in Glendale, California, to professional musicians Ray and Roberta Nowlin. 1966 to 1969: lived in Berkeley, attended California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC); experimented at Mills College Tape Music Center. 1968: left CCAC, worked for Ladd & Kelsey Architects,Pasadena; helped build a model of California Institute of the Arts (Calarts).
1969-70: worked in the Astro-Electronics Lab at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), drafting computer circuits for the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories; participated in Caltech's E.A.T. (Experiments in Art & Technology) program, working with filmmaker and computer animation pioneer John Whitney. 1970: made the 3-minute film NNON, using early motion-graphics programming developed at Caltech. 1970/71: attended Calarts to finish undergraduate degree. 1972-76 worked as laboratory technician, University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine; pursued studio art practice and experimentation.
1976: married Anne (Hathaway) Nowlin. 1978: received MFA degree from Art Center College of Design and joined the college's faculty. 1979: organized, with Fine Art Chair Laurence Dreiband, a survey of paintings by pop-artist Wayne Theibaud. 1979-80: pursued studio practice, exhibited at various Los Angeles venues including Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), and Topo Swope Gallery. 1979: son Thomas born. 1989: daughter Elizabeth born. 1991: daughter Rebecca born.
1980 to the early 1990s: curated over forty exhibitions including the first exhibition of work by 1930s-era photographer Horace Bristol; exhibitions of photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark, art directors Josef Muller-Brockmann and Helmut Krone; group exhibitions with Leo Castelli Gallery and John Berggruen Gallery; and solo exhibitions with David Hockney, Duane Michaels, Donald Judd, and Robert Venturi; curated solo exhibitions of recent work by James Rosenquist, Judy Pfaff, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris; managed and designed the installation of large-scale sculptural works by David Smith, Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Anthony Caro, Mark di Suvero, Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman. 1990 - 1992: collaborated with architect Frederick Fisher and Partners, on Fisher's design for the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery on Art Center's campus.