Roy Dowell is an American contemporary visual artist, based in California.

About

He was born in 1951 in

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and his work combines collage and painted elements, and elements of mass media to create abstract compositions. Dowell has had a solo installation at the

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. His work is in the collections of that museum, and of the

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, the Hammer Museum of UCLA, Berkeley Museum of Art and the

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. In 1990, Dowell established a graduate fine arts department at

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in Westchester. In 2010, the

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of the school showed "The Story of O", with work by twenty graduates of the department. He was a "critic's pick" in the May 2010 issue of ''

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''. He has been awarded a J. Paul Getty Fellowship in the Visual Arts, and has served as artist in residence at the

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. He is partnered to artist

Lari Pittman Lari George Pittman (born 1952 in Glendale, California) is a Colombian-American contemporary artist and painter. Pittman is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Painting and Drawing at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Early life ...

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American contemporary artists Living people 1951 births Otis College of Art and Design faculty {{US-artist-stub