Trevor Chowning

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Trevor Chowning is an artist and talent manager with several notable former clients including Johnny Cash's band. He produced Lone Star for Fox TV and is still working in the film business as a producer.

As an artist 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 put 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.

His TV and film career spans projects for Fox TV, 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 in the 1990's 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.

Trivia: Date of birth; Dec. 18, 1982 He shares a birthday with Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt. (Dec. 18th) Another famous artist, Robert Indiana was born in the same Indiana small town.

References: IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1513659/bio 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

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