Eve Fowler

Eve Fowler is a Los Angeles-based artist who has become known for her series of portraits. For the past few years she has been photographing the women she knows, mostly those who are either gay and/or transgender women.

The work is intended to "visualize an unapologetically sexual being; lesbians who are butch, femme, boyish, a little of both, and those who identify as 'he' and lesbian at the same time."

In her previous work, the subjects she photographed were men. She first 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. The photographs of men are "about a kind of longing–a nostalgic interest to return to a feeling of longing through the subject I photographed."

Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institute, and the New Museum in New York. Recent shows include Small Things End, Great Things Endure, New Langton Art, San Francisco; The Way We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Wimmin by Womyn who love Wymin at the Harve Levine gallery in Los Angeles; Gold Star at Rental Gallery.

Eve received her MFA in photojournalism from Yale in 1992. She currently teaches at UCLA and has recently taught at USC, Cal Arts, and Cal State Long Beach.