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Constance Lowe American, b. 1951
Drift Threshold #5 (Tapioca Tundra), 2023
Acrylic paint and ink, wool felt, and leather on drafting film
19.5 x 23 in
49.5 x 58.4 cm
49.5 x 58.4 cm
Lowe maintains a conscious engagement with art historical touchstones in her practice. Some - - like Cubism and abstract formalism – are apparent, while others – such as 17 th...
Lowe maintains a conscious engagement with art historical touchstones in her practice. Some -
- like Cubism and abstract formalism – are apparent, while others – such as 17 th century Dutch
still lifes or Surrealism – might be less obvious. In Drift Threshold – her new, emerging body of work – Lowe draws
upon a repertoire of elements rooted in the “ground truth” of empirical evidence and personal history. Through her
multi-layered process, she employs tactics of design (tracing, puzzling, figuring…) to tease
abstract pictorial structures from her visual records of transitory landscapes seen from the air
and lapping sea foam. This new chapter in her work continues an
abiding interest in imbuing formal structures with emotional agency through a range of forms
and materials to prompt associations with our efforts to frame, order, contain, and control the
comforts and threats of an unruly world.
- like Cubism and abstract formalism – are apparent, while others – such as 17 th century Dutch
still lifes or Surrealism – might be less obvious. In Drift Threshold – her new, emerging body of work – Lowe draws
upon a repertoire of elements rooted in the “ground truth” of empirical evidence and personal history. Through her
multi-layered process, she employs tactics of design (tracing, puzzling, figuring…) to tease
abstract pictorial structures from her visual records of transitory landscapes seen from the air
and lapping sea foam. This new chapter in her work continues an
abiding interest in imbuing formal structures with emotional agency through a range of forms
and materials to prompt associations with our efforts to frame, order, contain, and control the
comforts and threats of an unruly world.