Constance Lowe American, b. 1951

Constance (Connie) Lowe was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and recently returned there after years of living and working in San Antonio, Texas. She received an MFA from Western Michigan University in 1979 and a BFA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas in 1973.

Lowe’s current mixed media works combine influences of her Midwestern farming heritage, landscape photography, and the legacy of geometric abstract painting with the physical presence of materials such as felt and leather. “I’ve always been interested in the physical and psychological aspects of materials. I’ve always looked for the reductive qualities in my work. These works are loosely based on the abstraction of farmland as seen from the air. It’s also based on the belief that abstraction can be meaningful on a variety of levels, sometimes in ways we don’t always assume.” – Constance Lowe.

She was selected for the Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Program in 1998 and received a San Antonio Artist Foundation award in 2007. Lowe’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, and Double Vision: Alicia Beach and Constance Lowe, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ. Exhibitions of her work include the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX; University of Texas at San Antonio; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Trinity College, Hartford, CT; Forum for   Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; and Monash University, Caulfield, Australia. Her artworks are in numerous collections, including The Linda Pace Foundation, Ruby City, San Antonio, TX, and The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX.

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