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Constance Lowe American, b. 1951
Drift Threshold #7 (Tapioca Tundra Sketchbook), 2024
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
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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...
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.
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.