Stephen Nowlin is Los Angeles-based artist inspired by science, the histories of science and art, and theories of knowledge. His Chapel Studio is in Altadena, California. He was founding director and curator of the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter College in Pasadena until 2021, and is currently Artist in Residence at Mount Wilson Observatory.
About Stephen Nowlin
Stephen Nowlin is Los Angeles-based artist inspired by science, the histories of science and art, and theories of knowledge. His Chapel Studio is in Altadena, California. He was founding director and curator of the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter College in Pasadena until 2021, and is currently Artist in Residence at Mount Wilson Observatory.
Articles with Stephen Nowlin
Knowledge Works
‘Knowledge Works’ uses analog as well as digital processes: painted surfaces, historic books’ title pages, scattered and appropriated imagery, scanned and layered and interwoven via digital tooling to create small to very large prints on paper. The pages are found in science, philosophy, and science-vs-religion books from the 17th to early 20th centuries, probing that epoch’s history of revolutionary change in human thought and knowledge.
Beauty Found (Where it Wasn’t Meant to Be)
Stephen Nowlin is Los Angeles-based artist, curator, and writer whose practice is inspired by science, the histories of science and art, and theories of knowledge. His work employs the use of digital tools, photography, and scanning technology, resulting in small and large-scale limited edition archival pigment prints. Artist in Residence, Mount Wilson Observatory, California.
This Land, Marginalia, and Chronicles of Fallacy.
Stephen Nowlin is Los Angeles-based artist, curator, and writer whose practice is inspired by science, the histories of science and art, and theories of knowledge. His work employs the use of digital tools, photography, and scanning technology, resulting in small and large-scale limited edition archival pigment prints. In this article he discusses his work of the last few years which has developed along three ongoing series: ‘This Land’, ‘Marginalia’, and ‘Chronicles of Fallacy’.
Sky
SKY is an exhibition, curated by Stephen Nowlin, that invites visitors to ponder both the provincial and universal elements of space above and around the Earth’s surface. This group exhibition demonstrates how the unfolding realities exposed by new science are affecting change in the understanding of ourselves, our planet and beyond. The SKY exhibition features works of contemporary art, science artifacts and historical objects displayed equally and side-by-side, blurring boundaries and distinctions between domains usually separated by convention and differing periods of history.