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It will come again
Inspired by a discussion with the artist’s son on trusting the cyclicality of nature, this artwork features a lot of churning and repetition. The Vitruvian wave pattern around the border is ubiquitous, mimicking a favorite doodle by the artist’s mother—a pattern she would invariably draw while talking on the phone.
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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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.
Inspired by a discussion with the artist’s son on trusting the cyclicality of nature, this artwork features a lot of churning and repetition. The Vitruvian wave pattern around the border is ubiquitous, mimicking a favorite doodle by the artist’s mother—a pattern she would invariably draw while talking on the phone.More
- Framed: 25.8 x 17.0 x 2.5 in.
- Signed on verso
4:00 PM, Dec 3, 2024.
