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① Artwork:
Fly home North
In this artwork, made from carved plywood, crochet thread, oil paint, and fabric scraps, the artist utilized an inset (a kind of painting within a painting) covering most of its left-hand side. This inset roughly symbolizes a bird on her flight home, while the rest of the work represents the springtime waiting for her. The artwork also includes a hand-painted pattern in ink and oil paint on fabric that borders the central painting.
A self-taught artist from a long lineage of woodworkers, textile designers, and metalsmiths, Beck Lowry makes elaborate wall-hung sculptures. Largely biomorphic in form, these abstract artworks draw their language from both the natural world and the rich inheritance of decorative patterning made by artisans for millennia. By combining these impulses, methods, and materials with contemporary ego-centered conceptions of art, Lowry's work explores the many uses of art objects, from protection to storing memories or history.
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③ Artist:
A self-taught artist from a long lineage of woodworkers, textile designers, and metalsmiths, Beck Lowry makes elaborate wall-hung sculptures carved from assemblages of laminated plywood, intricately ornamented in mixed media. Largely biomorphic in form, these abstract artworks draw their language from both the natural world (mimicking the aposematic markings and structural coloration of flora and fauna) and the rich inheritance of decorative patterning made by artisans for millennia. Lowry’s work is born from a need to build through physical ritual and locate themselves within a lineage of artisanal laborers. By combining these impulses, methods, and materials with contemporary ego-centered conceptions of art, Lowry's work explores the many uses of art objects, from protection to storing memories or history.
Beck Lowry was born in 1980 in New Haven, CT, where they live. They studied Economics at Smith College.
Lowry has mounted solo or two-person exhibitions at Headstone Gallery in Kingston, NY (2024); Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh, NY (2023); Kishka Gallery in White River Junction, VT (2023); and Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, CT (2019).
Lowry has participated in residencies such as the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY; the Chautauqua School of Art program in Chautauqua, NY; Interlude in Livingston, NY; and Millay Arts in Austerlitz, NY.
Their work has been featured in New American Paintings, Artforum, Galerie, Maake Magazine, and elsewhere.
In this artwork, made from carved plywood, crochet thread, oil paint, and fabric scraps, the artist utilized an inset (a kind of painting within a painting) covering most of its left-hand side. This inset roughly symbolizes a bird on her flight home, while the rest of the work represents the springtime waiting for her. The artwork also includes a hand-painted pattern in ink and oil paint on fabric that borders the central painting.More
- Framed: 26.5 x 17.2 x 2.2 in.
- Signed on verso
4:00 PM, Dec 3, 2024.
