Making His Mark: Seven Decades of Paintings by Adger Cowans

Bruce Silverstein is pleased to announce the exhibition Making His Mark: Seven Decades of Paintings by Adger Cowans. Well known for his photography, this is the first exhibition dedicated solely to the paintings of Adger Cowans (b. 1936). Featuring a selection of works spanning his career, from the mid-1960s to the present, the show offers a rare and overdue opportunity to engage with an artist whose innovative use of found and handmade tools has produced a deeply original body of abstract work. While friends such as Peter Bradley, Ed Clark, and Jack Whitten have received long-overdue recognition in recent decades, Cowans has continued to work in near-total obscurity. Yet his contributions to abstraction—and the material innovations that would later be echoed by others—have been substantial and singular.