James Cohan Gallery is proud to present our second solo exhibition by California-based artist, Bill Owens. This exhibition will present work from several collections including Working, a series from the 1970's that documents people at work, which is soon to be released in a new publication of the same name. Other images shown will be from Owens's photos of protest marches and Vietnam veteran parades as well as work from his latest travels across America. Owens is best known for his photos from the1960's and 70's, which captured and chronicled the lives of middle-class Americans in the suburb of Livermore, CA. As the staff photographer of the Livermore Independent Newspaper starting in 1968, Owens captured the essence of the burgeoning suburban culture.
Bill Owens was born in San Jose, California in 1938 and currently lives and works in Hayward, California. His images have been widely reproduced in book form and in magazines such as: Rolling Stone, Bomb, Esquire and Newsweek. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, and Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, among others. A retrospective of Owens' work was organized by the San Jose Museum of Art in 2000.