Artist Biography
Kevin Ewing was born in Detroit. After earning a BFA in Graphic Design from the College for Creative Studies, a professional path as an award-winning freelance illustrator and retail store designer followed. The chance discovery of Kathan Brown's book Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood, in which the author details the methods of contemporary artists working at her Crown Point Press studio in San Francisco, became a catalyst for manifest change, resulting in a shift in creative focus toward the fine arts.
Ewing earned an MFA in Painting from Wayne State University in 2007. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University in Athens, and has taught painting and drawing at Wayne State University in Detroit. He now teaches a variety of courses such as Studio Arts, Art History and the Humanities at Schoolcraft College, Oakland Community College, and Henry Ford Community College. He currently resides in Plymouth, Michigan.
Ewing and his Plan B Gallery have been featured on the NPR radio program All Things Considered and The Craig Fahle Show. His work has been shown nationally in Culver City and San Francisco, California, as well as Chicago, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. His work has been reviewed in print and online publications including Sculpture magazine, The Ann Arbor News, and The Metro Times.
In his own work, Ewing uses allegories to question the human nature of attraction as a vehicle for social critique. He exploits faux materials and invents fake worlds in a quixotic attempt to neutralize the consequences of violence, transforming perversions and deformations into allegories of regenerative power. By using mythical animal hybrids as surrogates for our moral inadequacies, Ewing questions whether we might carry within us the power to harness our violent nature and use it to transform into better versions of ourselves.
Ewing earned an MFA in Painting from Wayne State University in 2007. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University in Athens, and has taught painting and drawing at Wayne State University in Detroit. He now teaches a variety of courses such as Studio Arts, Art History and the Humanities at Schoolcraft College, Oakland Community College, and Henry Ford Community College. He currently resides in Plymouth, Michigan.
Ewing and his Plan B Gallery have been featured on the NPR radio program All Things Considered and The Craig Fahle Show. His work has been shown nationally in Culver City and San Francisco, California, as well as Chicago, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. His work has been reviewed in print and online publications including Sculpture magazine, The Ann Arbor News, and The Metro Times.
In his own work, Ewing uses allegories to question the human nature of attraction as a vehicle for social critique. He exploits faux materials and invents fake worlds in a quixotic attempt to neutralize the consequences of violence, transforming perversions and deformations into allegories of regenerative power. By using mythical animal hybrids as surrogates for our moral inadequacies, Ewing questions whether we might carry within us the power to harness our violent nature and use it to transform into better versions of ourselves.