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Constance Lowe: Air to Ground

Past exhibition
January 29 - February 28, 2015 San Antonio
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Artwork: Constance Lowe, Garden City #2, 2013, Acrylic, colored pencil, wool felt, leather, and archival inkjet prints on Japanese paper on drafting film, 24 x 19 x 0
Constance Lowe, Garden City #2, 2013, Acrylic, colored pencil, wool felt, leather, and archival inkjet prints on Japanese paper on drafting film, 24 x 19", 60.9 x 48.2 cm

Constance (Connie) Lowe was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and lives and works in San Antonio. She received an MFA from Western Michigan University and a BFA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Her current mixed media works combine influences of her Midwestern farming heritage, landsat photography, and the legacy of geometric abstract painting with the physical presence of materials such as felt and leather. By chiefly using the visual language of non-representation, her collages and paintings all demonstrate how our natural environment and our relationship to it is increasingly abstract.

 

Constance Lowe’s exhibition Air to Ground consists of highly textural geometric collages that are brilliantly colored and either set against semi-translucent drafting film or presented as shaped panel paintings. According to catalogue writer Alison Hearst, “A single work’s composition often incorporates wool felt, photographs of clouds, peculiarly dyed commercial leathers, and muted passages of acrylic paint and colored pencil. Each collage in the series stands apart from the other in palette, arrangement, and scale, yet they have a kinship in that they all juxtapose traditional and unconventional artistic materials, and share visual and thematic threads.”

 

These works are all part of Lowe’s Garden City series, 2013 to the present, which, formally and conceptually, evolve from US geological landsat (NASA land satellite) photographs that depict the circle-and-grid-shaped center-pivot irrigation farming patterns that dot the Midwest’s landscape. These aerial survey images often code the crop formations in unnatural hues in order to track the agricultural use of water throughout the years, and to document the continual changes to the earth’s surface. These human and technological mediations are, in turn, echoed in Lowe’s Garden City series, yet she pushes, displaces, and layers the flat forms found in the landsat imagery to further abstract the circular, unnatural shapes.

 
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Works
  • Constance Lowe Garden City #3, 2013 Acrylic, colored pencil, dyed deerskin, felt, and archival inkjet print on drafting film 23.5 x 23.5" 59.6 x 64.7 cm
    Constance Lowe
    Garden City #3, 2013
    Acrylic, colored pencil, dyed deerskin, felt, and archival inkjet print on drafting film
    23.5 x 23.5"
    59.6 x 64.7 cm
  • Constance Lowe Garden City #8, 2014 Mixed media 18.5 x 18.5" 47 x 47 cm
    Constance Lowe
    Garden City #8, 2014
    Mixed media
    18.5 x 18.5"
    47 x 47 cm
  • Constance Lowe Garden City #7, 2014 Acrylic, colored pencil, wool felt, & leather on drafting film 22.2 x 19.5" 57.1 x 49.5 cm
    Constance Lowe
    Garden City #7, 2014
    Acrylic, colored pencil, wool felt, & leather on drafting film
    22.2 x 19.5"
    57.1 x 49.5 cm
  • Constance Lowe Garden City #2, 2013 Acrylic, colored pencil, wool felt, leather, and archival inkjet prints on Japanese paper on drafting film 24 x 19" 60.9 x 48.2 cm
    Constance Lowe
    Garden City #2, 2013
    Acrylic, colored pencil, wool felt, leather, and archival inkjet prints on Japanese paper on drafting film
    24 x 19"
    60.9 x 48.2 cm
  • Constance Lowe, Quarter Section Suite #1, 2013
    Constance Lowe, Quarter Section Suite #1, 2013
  • Constance Lowe Webb's Bridge: Study 1, 2014 Mixed media 22.5 x 19.5" 57.1 x 49.5 cm
    Constance Lowe
    Webb's Bridge: Study 1, 2014
    Mixed media
    22.5 x 19.5"
    57.1 x 49.5 cm
Installation Views
  • Air To Ground 4
  • Air To Ground 2
  • Air To Ground
  • Air To Ground 3
Publications
  • Constance Lowe: Air to Ground  I Ruiz-Healy Art

    Constance Lowe: Air to Ground I Ruiz-Healy Art

    Essay by Alison Hearst 2015
    Hardcover 24 pages
    Publisher: Ruiz-Healy Art
    ISBN: 978-1367466449
    Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.5 in
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