LYNDA LOWE
temenos
LYNDA LOWE temenos JULY 1 - JULY 31
1111 1st Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 206-223-0273 rovzargallery.com
The Light That is There watercolor, oil, and wax on panel, 36 x 23 in.
A Poem of Beginning I watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 38 x 32 in.
A Poem of Beginning II watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 38 x 32 in.
A Poem of Beginning III watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 38 x 32 in.
Anima Mundi - Soul of the World watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 38 x 32 in.
A Kind of Silence watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 55 x 18 in.
Arbor Philosophica watercolor, oil, metallic paint and wax on panel 31.5 x 24 in. - diptych
Arbor Philosophica II watercolor, oil, metallic paint and wax on panel 15 x 12 in.
Refuge watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 24 x 44 in.
Spacious watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 21 x 68 in.
What Blooms from the Dark watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 48 x 48 in.
Meditation on Time watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 12 x 68 in.
Anima Mundi II watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 24 x 18 in.
This Morning watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 24 x 18 in.
Hidden Nature watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 45 x 36 in.
Sanctum watercolor, oil, and wax on panel 24 x 55 in.
LYNDA LOWE Lowe’s practice often starts with research. Her current work shows a deep interest in the relationships between science and art, the psyche, and studies of human consciousness. The many-layered paintings incorporate an interplay of text fragments, intuitive marks, diagrammatic figures, open areas of eroded color, and recognizable images. This combination is intended to engage various mechanics of perception – empirical, rational, relational, intuitive, abstract, and symbolic. Lowe has a cultivated interest in archetypal and metaphorical associations and offers images that invite opportunities for engagement at many levels. Some inclusions are so small and subtle as to be seen only with closest examination and suggest the quantum world underlying all experience. Lowe’s body of work ranges from recognizable likenesses to entirely abstract terrains. Consistent through all of her work is a meditative aspect proposing that no thought or thing is utterly passive or inert but charged with complex content and a sentient presence. After receiving her MFA at Indiana University Lowe taught university and graduate students for fifteen years in Illinois. She left her academic position, moved from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest and began full-time studio work. Lynda Lowe’s artwork has been widely exhibited in over forty solo exhibitions in galleries and museums across the country. She was the recipient of two Artist Fellowships and several assistance grants from the Illinois Arts Council, named a Distinguished Resident of Ragdale Foundation’s arts colony, received a Ford Foundation research grant, and was a finalist of the Neddy Award. Her work is can be found in many private and public collections and museums, most notably Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Glass, the Art and Embassy program in Bern, Switzerland, the Illinois State Museum of Art, the St. George Museum of Art, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and Seattle University.
EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Graduate teaching fellowship Accademia di Belle Arti Perugia, Italy. Studies in art history, painting, and drawing Bachelor of Fine Arts, Alma College, Alma, MI. cum laude and departmental honors
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Full-time Instructor, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 1992-1995 • Assitant Professor, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 1980-1988 • Part-time Instructor College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 1989-1992 • Assistant Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1975-1979
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 2019
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Temenos, Seattle, WA Gail Severn Gallery, Bound & Boundless, Ketchum, ID Patricia Rovzar Gallery, The Edge of the Known, Seattle, WA 2017 Gail Severn Gallery, By a Grace of Sense, Ketchum, ID 2016 Arden Gallery, Still and Still Moving, Boston, MA 2015 Museum of Glass, Patra Passage: Full Circle, Tacoma, WA Abmeyer+Wood Fine Art, Resonance, Seattle, WA 2014 Gail Severn Gallery, Poiesis, Ketchum, ID 2013 Museum of Glass, Patra Passage Beginnings, Tacoma, WA 2012 Forre Fine Art Gallery, Falling and Flying, Aspen & Vail, CO Arden Gallery, Boston, MA 2010 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Gail Severn Gallery, Psi: The Uncertainty Principle, Ketchum, ID 2009 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Arden Gallery, Boston, MA 2008 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA 2007 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2006 2005 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998
Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Harper College, Palatine, IL University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL Miami University Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, OH Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Northern Illinois University Museum & Gallery, DeKalb, IL Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL Northern Illinois University Museum & Gallery, Chicago, IL Fermi Lab Gallery, Batavia, IL Astra Gallery, Richmond, VA Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL Alma College, Alma, MI Nine Gallery, Portland, OR Westminster College, Philadelphia, PA OnStage Gallery, DeKalb, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, 27th Annual Celebrate Art, Seattle, WA Sue Greenwood Fine Arts, Poetic Worlds, Laguna Beach, CA Patricia Rovzar Gallery, 26th Annual Celebrate Art, Seattle, WA Woodbury Art Museum, Coalesce: Exploring Intersections in Contemporary Art, Orem, UT Gail Severn Gallery, The Spectrum of Women, Ketchum, ID Seattle Art Fair, Gail Severn Gallery, Seattle, WA Seattle Art Fair, Gail Severn Gallery, Seattle, WA Art Market, Gail Severn Gallery, San Francisco, CA Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art, Collaborative Visions II: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Chicago, IL Gail Severn Gallery, State of Nature IV, Ketchum, ID Seattle Art Fair, Abmeyer+Wood, Seattle, WA Gail Severn Gallery, State of Nature III, Ketchum, ID Gail Severn Gallery, Preview 2014, Ketchum, ID Art Aspen, Forre Gallery, Aspen, CO Gail Severn Gallery, State of Nature, Ketchum, ID Art Chicago, Gail Severn Gallery, Chicago, IL Friesen Gallery, Speak for the Trees, Seattle, WA Art Chicago, Gail Severn Gallery, Chicago, IL Gail Severn Gallery, Sense of Place, Ketchum, ID Tacoma Art Museum, Neddy Fellowship Exhibition, Tacoma, WA Chicago Cultural Center, Collaborative Visions: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Chicago, IL Bowling Green State University, Collaborative Visions: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Bowling Green, OH Indiana State University, Collaborative Visions: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Terre Haute, IN
Friesen Gallery, Seeds of Compassion, Seattle, WA
2007 Friesen Gallery, Seeds of Compassion, Seattle, WA 2006 Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Natural Inclinations, Chicago, IL Friesen Gallery, Seeds of Compassion, Seattle, WA 2005 Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR Friesen Gallery, Seeds of Compassion, Seattle, WA 2004 Northern Illinois University Gallery, Collaborations, Chicago, IL 2003 Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Fifteenth Anniversary Show, Chicago, IL 2002 Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX 2001 Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR 2000 Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Ragdale Foundation, Chicago, IL
GRANTS AND AWARDS 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
1996 1995 1994 1991 1988 1979 1979
Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Neddy Fellowship Finalist, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Ragdale Foundation, Distinguished Resident Lifetime Award, Lake Forest, IL Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Artist Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency Grant, Lake Forest, IL Panelist for Artist Fellowship Grants, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council
Artist in Education and Arts Resource Grants, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Panelist for Ragdale Foundation Grants, Lake Forest, IL Artist in Education and Arts Resource Grants, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Artist Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Artist in Education and Arts Resource Grants, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Artist in Education and Arts Resource Grants, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Artist in Education and Arts Resource Grants, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Artist in Education and Arts Resource Grants, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Illinois Percentage for Art in Architecture Commission, Starved Rock State Park, IL Aldeen Foundation Grant Fulbright Hays Foundation Grant Ford Foundation Grant
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Art in Embassies, Swiss Consulate, Bern, Switzerland Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Sutter Health System, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA El Camino Hospital, Los Gatos, CA Woodward Canyon Winery, Walla Walla, WA Palo Alto Medical Foundation Munnerlyn Eye Institute, Palo Alto, CA Seattle University, Seattle, WA Oxford Biotech Company, Boston, MA
Bain Capital, Boston, MA St. George Museum of Art, St. George, UT Dynamic Machine Works, Boston, MA Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL A.A.R. Corporation World Headquarters, Woodale, IL State of Illinois, Percent for Art, Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL Kane County Circuit Courthouse, Geneva, IL Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Building, Minneapolis, MN Van Andel Center, Pine Rest Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst, IL. Elmhurst Physician’s Conference Center, Elmhurst IL. Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL President’s Corporate Complex, Des Plaines, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Encaustic, by Kim Bernard and Ashley Rooney, bound book, 2015, Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 100 Northwest Artists, by Ashley Rooney, bound book, forthcoming release 2012 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Woodward Canyon Winery, 2014 Artist Series Cabernet Sauvignon wine label Green Art: Trees, Roots and Leaves, by Ashley Rooney, bound book, 2014 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Numero Cinq Magazine, “The Object of the Object Interview with Lynda Lowe” by Nance Van Winkle, December 2013 Tacoma News Tribune, “Philosophical ceramic-based Patra Passage at Museum of Glass” by Rosemary Ponnekanti, September 25, 2013 Poison Sonnets, by Joseph Heithaus, featured cover art. David Roberts Books, Cincinnati, OH. 2012 Good Reason, by Jennifer Habel, featured cover art. NSFPS Press, Auburn, AL. 2012 Falling and Flying, exhibition catalog published by Forre Fine Art, August, 2012 Speak for the Trees, 200 page hardcover book, composed by Andria Friesen and published by Marquand Books, Inc. Seattle, WA. 2009 Psi: The Uncertainty Principle, exhibition catalog, essay by Margaret Hawkins and interview by Jane Milosch, published by Gail Severn Gallery, February 2009 ArtNews, October, 2005 review by Joanne Silver Cincinnati Review, featured artist, Fall 2005 Boston Globe, May 24, 2002 “Imagining Reality” review by Cate McQuaid Chicago Reader, November 2, 2001 “Doubt Springs Eternal” review by Fred Camper THE Magazine, Santa Fe Magazine of the Arts, July, 2001 “Lynda Lowe: By a Grace of Sense” review by Richard Tobin Surface Design Magazine, Winter 2001, “Intellect and Intuition: The Paradoxical Pairings of Lynda Lowe” by Barbara Lee Smith pg. 36-39. DeKalb Daily Chronicle, April 16, 2000 “Of Two Minds: Paintings by Lynda Lowe” review by Ben Mahmoud artscope.net May 15, 2000 “In Conguency” review by G. Jurek Polanski El Paso Times, July 21, 2000 “Great minds think alike” review by Claudia Leos
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