Michael Bowen
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A player on the world stage. Involved in the American cultural revolution of the 60's. A world class artist. From the 1954 Los Angeles art and occult circles to the 60's San Francisco beat scene. Co-founded, with Allen Cohen, the "San Francisco Oracle". Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Das), Ralph Metzner, Billy and Peggy Hitchcock, Maynard ferguson, Seymor Hersh, Huntington Hartford, Wilfred Sätty, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman have all passed through his life. |
| LSD, daisies and the Pentagon | Peggy Hitchcock gave Michael Bowen and friends money to purchase two hundred pounds of daisies for the occasion, but the plan never got off the ground because of a dirty trick by the FBI. Acid Dreams |
| Wilfred Sätty | It was a cold day in February 1982
and the sun was going down over the bay casting its long shadows from
the old military piers at Fort Mason onto the water and over the fishermen
carrying their little buckets of the days bay catch. Sätty is Dead By Michael Bowen |
| 1937 | Michael Bowen born in Beverly Hills
California Michael Bowen Time-line |
| At the Whitney Museum | The 1995-96 Whitney Museum exhibition "beat culture and the new america, 1950 to 1965" honored michael bowen, allen ginzberg, jackson pollack william burroughs, edward kienholz jim dine bruce conners robert rauchenberg & the contribution of the beat generation to freedom, art, and culture. |
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Biography
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Michael Bowens work as an artist
spans several decades and has been progressively documented in exhibitions,
reviews, art periodicals, and in the media. He has exhibited in the United
States and abroad, has a large following, and his work is housed by groups
of private collectors and museums. He is considered one of the foremost
core catalysts in avant-guarde art circles throughout the world. He was
a youthful member of the abstract/assemblage group in the early fifties
in Los Angeles, traveled to the east coast and Europe in the early sixties,
and completed four world art tours between 1969 and 1988. Traveling to
Japan, Cambodia, and India, he acted as a liaison in bringing together
a fusion of eastern and western visual symbology. His etching series has
been compared to Chagall, Fuchs, Fini, and Dali; works which comprise
over ninety-five different editions in full color. In the mid-seventies,
he turned his attention to the world of psychic pheonomenon and allied
himself with the PSI Art Group, Ingo Swan, Hechelmann, and Schwertberger.
The sensitivy of Michael Bowen's work provided direction and inspiration
to the poets and writers of the mid-fifties such as Allen Ginzberg, Michael
McClure, and Gary Snyder. His involvement with this movement has been
chronicled in a wide spectrum of literary/art publications and established
Michael Bowen as an artistic cultural hero. Bowen is currently utilizing
new skills such as air brush technique to widen the spectrum of his abilities.
He resides in San Francisco, California and the island of Hawaii, in the
Hawaiian chain. --Bio
(at the Archive of The 10th
Annual Digital Be-In)
The Human Be-In developed out of the success of the Love Pageant Rally, the first San Francisco outdoor rock and roll celebration that Allen Cohen and Michael Bowen produced on October 6, 1966, the day LSD became illegal in California. --A New Look at the Summer of Love by Allen Cohen |
