1988 Michael Bowen Artist
A Gallery Exhibition in St. Helena California in 1988.
"Michael Bowen co-founded one of America’s first alternative weeklys, the San Francisco Oracle. In 1966, Bowen helped organize the “Love Pageant Rally,” a celebration against the new law criminalizing LSD in California. Bowen was joined in this event by his friend, Janis Joplin, along with her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company.
In January 1967 Bowen organized the proto performance art happening called the “Human Be-In,” drawing major counterculture figures such as poet Allen Ginsberg, spiritual guru Ram Das, and then pre-eminent LSD apostle Tim Leary. The Human Be-In was widely credited as the catalyst for the famous San Francisco “Summer of Love” which spurred the hippie movement of the ’60s.
Later that year, Bowen drove a carload of flowers to the Pentagon where 75,000 protesters had gather in opposition to the war in Vietnam.
https://variety.com/2009/scene/people-news/artist-michael-bowen-dies-at-71-1118002896/
This was a never edited analog SD tape of his exhibition way back in 1988.
We decided to digitize, upscale to 2K and edit some of the footage using DaVinci Resolve. A short piece showing many of his paintings.
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