Throughout his career, McGowin has produced works in a wide variety of media that have been installed and exhibited in galleries, museums and public spaces.
[1] The first major publication of his work, Name Change: One Artist – Twelve Personas – Thirty Five Years, was published by the Mobile Museum of Art in 2006 and distributed by the University Press of Mississippi.
In 1962, McGowin moved to Washington D.C. where he served as an aid to Mississippi Democratic Rep. William M. Colmer and continued to make art.
[3] Shortly after, McGowin returned to the South to carry out a teaching fellowship and complete a master's degree in painting at University of Alabama.
At the event, fifty names were drawn with each winner receiving a copy of Gene Davis’s 1969 6'x6' painting “Popsicle”.