Eve Fowler’s ‘words doing as they want to do’ is on view at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Boston,
thru June 5th.
Fowler’s multi-phase exhibition at Gordon Robichaux and the Radcliffe Institute is informed by the artist’s ongoing research and engagement with personal and literary archives, most recently the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University and during her residency at the Radcliffe Institute. References to queer writers, poets, and activists appear throughout the exhibition, among them H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, (1886–1961) and her partner Silvia Dobson (1908–1993), June Jordan (1936–2002), Frank O’Hara (1926–1966), and James Merrill (1926–1995), as well as Gerturde Stein (1874–1946), whose biography and inventive use of language have been central to Fowler’s practice over the past fifteen years. Together, Fowler’s works engage language and images as a site of resistance and remembrance.
IMAGES: Eve Fowler ‘I Want to Tell You’ 2025, Flashe and acrylic ink on canvas, 18 x 18 x 1½ in
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When I made this poster with Colby in 2011 I printed 50 of the edition of 100. Colby posters closed before I could print the rest of the edition. This month I am printing the remaining 50 posters. I haven’t offered this poster in the last ten years or so. If you are interested please dm me.
Eve Fowler’s ‘words doing as they want to do’ is on view at Gordon Robichaux, Fri-Sun 12-6pm thru March 1st, and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Boston by appt thru June 5th.
A single rectangular painting in the exhibition, ‘Ouija,’ reproduces James Merrill’s hand-drawn spirit board layered with one of his letters that Fowler discovered in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. Between 1955 and 1975, Merrill and his romantic partner, David Jackson, used the board to transcribe their conversations with ghosts, angels, and historical figures. Merrill incorporated the material into his 560-page epic poem, “The Changing Light at Sandover,” which he performed at the Radcliffe Institute theater in 1990.
Fowler’s multi-phase exhibition at Gordon Robichaux and the Radcliffe Institute is informed by the artist’s ongoing research and engagement with personal and literary archives, most recently the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University and during her residency at the Radcliffe Institute. References to queer writers, poets, and activists appear throughout the exhibition, among them H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, (1886–1961) and her partner Silvia Dobson (1908–1993), June Jordan (1936–2002), Frank O’Hara (1926–1966), and James Merrill (1926–1995), as well as Gerturde Stein (1874–1946), whose biography and inventive use of language have been central to Fowler’s practice over the past fifteen years. Together, Fowler’s works engage language and images as a site of resistance and remembrance.
IMAGES: Eve Fowler ‘Ouija (James Merrill)’ 2025, Flashe and acrylic ink on canvas, 28 x 35 x 1½ in
@evemfowler #EveFowler @gordonrobichaux@radcliffe.institute
The first phase of Eve Fowler’s exhibition at Gordon Robichaux has concluded. Beginning Feb 17th, Fowler’s paintings will be installed in a new configuration of the exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Boston.
For the second phase of ‘words doing as they want to do’ at Gordon Robichaux, Fowler’s oversized artist’s book remains on display, the walls of the gallery are bare except for lines of screws that point to the previous installation of paintings, and a new audio work fills the space. The 17-minute sound piece features artists from Fowler’s community reading poetry by June Jordan and Frank O’Hara. Visit the exhibition at Gordon Robichaux Friday–Sunday 12-6pm.
Fowler’s multi-phase exhibition at Gordon Robichaux and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is informed by the artist’s ongoing research and engagement with personal and literary archives, most recently the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University and during her residency at the Radcliffe Institute. References to queer writers, poets, and activists appear throughout the exhibition, among them H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, (1886–1961) and her partner Silvia Dobson (1908–1993), June Jordan (1936–2002), Frank O’Hara (1926–1966), and James Merrill (1926–1995), as well as Gerturde Stein (1874–1946), whose biography and inventive use of language have been central to Fowler’s practice over the past fifteen years. Together, Fowler’s works engage language and images as a site of resistance and remembrance.
IMAGES: Eve Fowler ‘Roll back your eyes, a pool (blue)’ 2025, Flashe and acrylic ink on canvas, 18 x 18 x 1½ in, 45.72 x 45.72 x 3.81 cm
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This is the FINAL week to see the first phase of Eve Fowler’s exhibition ‘words doing as they want to do’ at Gordon Robichaux before it travels to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Boston. Visit Fowler’s exhibition at Gordon Robichaux Friday–Sunday 12-6pm.
‘Snow Angel’ is the most minimal and mysterious work in the exhibition: a nearly monochromatic grey canvas with a faint image of the artist’s mother in the snow. She died prematurely when Fowler was seven years old, and the painting memorializes this formative loss and the profound resonance of memory with images and text. Fowler recalls, “My earliest experiences of poetry were shaped by my mother’s love of language and reading. She had vinyl records of poetry—she played T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Wasteland,” regularly. After she died, I misplaced the record but continued to revisit it—poetry and reading are ways of feeling connected to her and to queer history.”
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This is the FINAL week to see the first phase of Eve Fowler’s exhibition ‘words doing as they want to do’ at Gordon Robichaux before it travels to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Boston.
Visit Fowler’s exhibition at Gordon Robichaux Friday–Sunday 12-6pm.
The installation at Gordon Robichaux brings together twelve new paintings, an artist’s book, a related portfolio of screenprints, and an audio work that expand on Fowler’s ongoing engagement with archives, queer and feminist history, and the intersections of memory, poetry, and visual art.
‘words doing as they want to do’ was conceived as a multiphase exhibition, with staggered openings: first at Gordon Robichaux as an installation of paintings and a large artist’s book displayed on a table, before traveling to the Radcliffe Institute, where it will be on view from February to June. Fowler has distinct installations for each venue, where the different arrangements and contexts will recast text, image, and meaning. Following the relocation of the paintings to Radcliffe, the exhibition at Gordon Robichaux will continue as a sound installation featuring audio of artists and writers from Fowler’s community reading many of the poems that inspired this body of work.
Fowler’s new artworks are informed by her ongoing research and engagement with personal and literary archives, most recently the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University and during her residency at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. References to queer writers, poets, and activists appear throughout the exhibition, among them H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, (1886–1961) and her partner Silvia Dobson (1908–1993), June Jordan (1936–2002), Frank O’Hara (1926–1966), and James Merrill (1926–1995), as well as Gerturde Stein (1874–1946), whose biography and inventive use of language have been central to Fowler’s practice over the
past fifteen years. Together, Fowler’s works engage language and images as a site of resistance and remembrance.
Visit part one of Eve Fowler’s exhibition at Gordon Robichaux, ‘words doing as they want to do,’ Friday thru Sunday, 12-6pm and by appt.
Two paintings dedicated to Robert White, ‘Double R Pink’ and ‘Double R Yellow,’ juxtapose various arrangements and colorways of the letter “R” over a triangle. The silhouetted shapes are activated by their eccentric geometries and are restorative invocations of White’s activism and legacy.
A gay man who lived and worked in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, Fowler encountered his story during her research for a walking tour of historical queer spaces. White was a community activist and owner of the Frog Pond, a queer cabaret and restaurant where he championed young artists by exhibiting their work. In 1980, the establishment was the target of a violent, homophobic act: an unidentified person hurled a firebomb into the Frog Pond and yelled out: “Die faggots!.” The blast injured three people, inspired the formation of a neighborhood alliance, and was one in a series of events that led to White’s suicide in 1985.
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‘words doing as they want to do was’ conceived as a multiphase exhibition with staggered openings: first at Gordon Robichaux as an installation of paintings and a large artist’s book displayed on a table, before traveling to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where it will be on view from February 19th thru June 5th.
Fowler has distinct installations for each venue, where the different arrangements and contexts will recast text, image, and meaning. Following the relocation of the paintings to Radcliffe, the exhibition at Gordon Robichaux will continue as a sound installation featuring audio of artists and writers from Fowler’s community reading many of the poems that inspired this body of work.
IMAGES: Eve Fowler ‘Double R Yellow (Robert White)’ 2025, Flashe and acrylic ink on canvas, 18 × 18 × 1½ in
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Eve Fowler’s ‘quiet words (Portfolio)’ is an unbound artist’s book presented as a portfolio of twenty unique screenprints featuring text and images that appear throughout the artist’s multidisciplinary project and exhibition ‘words doing as they want to do.’ The show is on view at Gordon Robichaux Fri-Sun, 12-6pm, before traveling to the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Boston, in late February.
IMAGES: Eve Fowler ‘quiet words (Portfolio)’ 2025, twenty unique acrylic screenprints on Arches paper, 24 × 18 in
#EveFowler @evemfowler@radcliffe.institute #GordonRobichaux
Visit Eve Fowler’s second exhibition at Gordon Robichaux, ‘words doing as they want to do,’ Friday thru Sunday, 12-6pm and by appt.
Several of the paintings in ‘words doing as they want to do’ center Fowler’s own experiences and serve as meditations on transience and memory. ‘December 7’ includes an excerpt of the artist’s daily journal layered with an image of a balloon that Fowler photographed at a 2005 New Year’s Eve party. These elements are screenprinted over a blue triangle and draw the viewer into a close inspection of the text.
IMAGE: Eve Fowler ‘December 7’ 2025, Flashe and acrylic ink on canvas, 18 × 18 × 1½ in
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Visit Eve Fowler’s second exhibition at Gordon Robichaux, ‘words doing as they want to do,’ Friday thru Sunday, 12-6pm and by appt.
Several of the paintings in the exhibition center Fowler’s own experiences and serve as meditations on transience and memory. ‘Snail (Self-Portrait)’ features a single image of a mollusk that the artist photographed in her backyard. Printed in black ink on a deep green canvas, the painting evokes the artist’s insistence on slowed observation and reflection.
IMAGES: Eve Fowler ‘Snail (Self-Portrait)’ 2025, Flashe and acrylic ink on canvas, 18 × 18 × 1½ in.
#EveFowler @evemfowler #GordonRobichaux
Visit Eve Fowler’s second exhibition at Gordon Robichaux, ‘words doing as they want to do,’ Friday thru Sunday, 12-6pm and by appt.
Eve Fowler’s ‘Words Doing As They Want To Do’ LP collects the casual reading of two important Gertrude Stein works: “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” and “Q.E.D.”. Readers include: Jess Arndt, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Kate Hall, Bobby Jablonski, Na Mira, Litia Perta, and Rachelle Sawatsky. Produced in 2018 on the occasion of Fowler’s first major European exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
IMAGES: Eve Fowler ‘Words Doing As They Want To Do’ 2018, 12-inch Vinyl LP, limited pressing of 250 hand-silkscreened copies, published by Radical Documents, 28:28 min
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