Constance Lowe American, b. 1951

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. These composite structures are further activated by the interplay of color, surface, and ambiguities of space and scale, along with the intrusion of other images and collaged fragments of dyed leather and wool felt. In the dynamic of these relationships, Lowe aims to bring attention to the immediacy of tension and play in the visual experience as well as map the intersections, drifts, and strains between the human-constructed world and natural phenomena. Color and material play both formal and signifying roles, exemplified by the fluorescent orange of caution signs, the flat blue of cloudless (rainless) skies, the vibrant blue-
green of infested waters, and the unnatural hues that obscure the origins of the felt and leather.