Trevor Chowning

Trevor Chowning is an American pop artist known for his extensive use of unique materials and occasionally strange objects in his work. Paintings have featured precious metals such as gold or silver leaf, and have included everything from antique hummingbird feathers, animal bones and obsolete pieces of NASA spacecraft among other things.

He was noted in 2007 for his controversial art piece "Lindsay Lohan Child's Costume" which was originally censored at the World of Wonder gallery but later placed back on exhibit. His "Damien Hearse" homage to Damien Hirst was a large model hearse cast in metal and covered with over 3,000 rhinestones. Some of his artwork for 2008 include a silver leafed painting of the James Dean death car for the "DepARTed" gallery show and a revealing look at Madonna for the "Dial M for Madonna" group show, both in Hollywood, CA. An art show opening in Los Angeles in October 2008 titled "Hollywood D.C.- Lights, Camera, Election!" will showcase some of his newest work.

Before picking up the paintbrush, he worked as a Hollywood talent manager and producer. He represented Johnny Cash's band among other notables. His TV and film career spans projects such as "Lone Star" for Fox TV, with other projects for Universal Studios, and Doug Liman of Hypnotic (Director of Swingers, Go, Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith). Chowning acted as casting director for the Victor Buhler film "Chaperone", which later won the Martin Scorsese Director's Award and was Academy Award nominated.

He worked as an A&R representative and label manager for AB Audio in New York City before relocating to Southern California and signed former Death Comet Crew founder Shinichi Shimokawa, Grammy Award Nominee Larry Tee, Alexi DeLano among others. AB Audio was distributed as a Warner Bros. Records subsidiary label.

He is the Los Angeles liaison for the Indiana Media Industry Network (IMIN), an organization that worked to successfully pass a tax incentive bill to aid filmmakers wishing to shoot in his home state of Indiana. In March of 2005 he accompanied actor Sean Astin, an IMIN supporter, to Indiana where the star spoke at the Statehouse and met with the Governor to gain support of the tax incentive bill.

References

*World of Wonder: http://worldofwonder.net/archives/2008/Apr/22/world_of_wonder_storefront_gallery.wow
*World of Wonder 2: http://worldofwonder.net/archives/2007/Oct/19/oh_for_arts_sake.wow
*Sean Astin official website: http://www.seanastin.com/cin05smileprem.htm
*Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Three

External links

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