Constance Lowe American, b. 1951

Tethered (After Pharmacie) pays tribute to Lowe's personal and professional friendship with Fran Colpitt, whose passion and critical insight connected the throughlines of art history to the ever-shifting present moment. The work belongs to an aspect of Lowe's multi-form practice in which fabricated forms covered in wool felt, leather, or vinyl exist in a fluid territory between the formal arrangements of abstract painting and an implied utility. The components and their relationships suggest our will towards certainty and attachment in the face of uncertainty and impermanence. The title also refers to an early readymade by Marcel Duchamp in which he added a small drop each of red and green paint to a cheap print of a winter landscape, reportedly interpreting these dots of paint as "two tiny figures walking towards each other in the distance.”