Constance Lowe
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SELECTED SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

2015 Air to Ground Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas (catalog)
2012 (Re)Turn Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
  Constance Lowe: Leap Year Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas
2008 Equivocal Topographies Richard Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas (catalog)
2006 nether land Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (brochure)
2005 Constance Lowe: Graft cactus bra SPACE, San Antonio, Texas
  Constance Lowe Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2004 Double Vision: Alicia Beach and Constance Lowe Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (catalog)
2000 NoworNever The Project Room, San Antonio, Texas
1999 striking likeness University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas
1998 Colony Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  striking likeness “New Works 98.1: Tadashi Kawamata, Glenn Ligon, Constance Lowe,” International Artist in Residency Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (brochure)
1996 Blankets, Furniture, Painting 1993-96 Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri (brochure)
  Control of Appearances Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
  New Material Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
  Appetite for System and Recent Drawings Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas
1995 Appetite for System I Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (brochure)
  Selected Works from “Appetite for System” Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1994 Appetite for System Rrose Amarillo Exhibition Space, San Antonio, Texas (brochure)
1990 Constance Lowe and Robert Michael Smith: Recent Work Anderson and Anderson Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1989 Paintings/Objects ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  Submerged Circuitry: Virginia Bradley and Constance Lowe Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (brochure)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2016 Straight from San Antonio Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City
2015 Ruiz Healy Art at INK Miami Art Fair, Miami, Florida
2014 Ruiz Healy Art at INK Miami Art Fair, Miami, Florida
  Sky’s the Limit Bank of America Central Lobby, Houston, Texas
2013 Collective Reflection Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas
  Continuous Change Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas
2012 The Long View David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2011 San Antonio Draws McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
  Ruiz Healy Art at the Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas
2010 Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960’s San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (publication)
2008 Summer Invitational Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Abstraction Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas
2007 All in an Afternoon: Contemporary Drawing Monash University, Caulfield, Australia
  Visual Directions: Texas Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Blur. Contemporary Quarterly #3 virtual exhibition at www.contemporaryquarterly.com (printed catalog)
2005 Nice to Meet You Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California
  Construct: Disclose Southern Space Project, San Antonio, Texas
2004 The Stray Show, Chicago, Illinois Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio
  H20: Considering the Hydrosphere Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas
2002 Drawing in San Antonio McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
  Easy as 1,2,3 RC Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2002 Blue Star Past and Future Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
  Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
  Neo Rococo University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery
  Departure/Return Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
  Central Texas Survey Houston Sculpture 2000 (in conjunction with the International Sculpture Conference) Houston, Texas
1998 A Cool Show (abstract paintings) Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
  Collective Visions San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
1998 Constance Lowe, Al Souza, and Dan Sutherland Fostick-Nelson Gallery, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York and Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
  a posteriori charlieuniformtango, Dallas, Texas
  Black Eye Visual Arts and Technology Gallery, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas
  Ars Botanica Austin College, Sherman, Texas
1997 Revelation Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas (catalog)
  2nd Texas Annual Exhibition Contemporary Art Center of Ft. Worth, Texas
  ABC Exhibition (Advisory Board Chooses) Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
1995 Blue Star Ten. Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
  Made in San Antonio Dowd Art Gallery, State University of New York College at Cortland
1994 Accumulated Evidence: Drawings by Jesse Amado, Meg Langhorne, Constance Lowe and Dan Sutherland Visual Arts & Technology Gallery, San Antonio College. San Antonio, Texas
  Invitational Sculpture Exhibition Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
  Putting It On Paper McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1992 Blue Star Seven (+7) Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
  Six Yaddo Artists Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, New York
  Baja Tejas: South Texas Artists - Works on Paper Peruvian/American Cultural Institute, Lima (Miraflores), Peru
1990 Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings High Museum at Georgia-Pacific Center, Atlanta, Georgia (catalog)


GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

2007 Artist Foundation of San Antonio, Visual Arts Award
  Faculty Research Development Leave, University of Texas at San Antonio
2003 ArtPace Travel Grant (for travel in Italy)
  Faculty Research Award. University of Texas at San Antonio (also 2000, 1996, 1991)
1998 Residency. International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace
1997 Faculty Research Development Leave, University of Texas at San Antonio
1996 President’s Distinguished Award for Creative Achievement, University of Texas at San Antonio
1991 Resident Fellow at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
  Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant
1988 Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship for works on paper


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

 

2011 Magnetic Fields (Barbara Kreft, Richard Martinez, Kim Owens, and Dan Sutherland) Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas (brochure)
2000 Edible Material: Paul Kittelson and Robert Ziebell UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
1997 Picture Play: Seven Texas Painters University Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas
  Surface Tensions Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas (brochure)
1994 Accumulated Evidence: Drawings by Jesse Amado, Meg Langhorne, Constance Lowe and Dan Sutherland Visual Arts & Technology Gallery, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas


PUBLICATIONS

 

Magnetic Fields gallery brochure, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas 2011

“In and Out of Bounds” ArtLies, (feature article and cover illustration) October 2003

Surface Tensions, brochure essay, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 1997


BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Book

Rubin, David (curator), Robert C. Morgan, and Daniel Pinchbeck Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960’s. San Antonio Museum of Art in association with the MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England) 2010


Solo Exhibition Brochures and Catalogs

Arning, Bill. striking likeness ArtPace, San Antonio 1998

Colpitt, Frances. Double Vision Phoenix Art Museum 2004

Appetite for System. Rrose Amarillo, San Antonio 1994

Hearst, Alison Air to Ground Ruiz Healy Art 2015

Ryan, Dinah. Equivocal Topographies Southwest School of Art, San Antonio 2008

Spector, Buzz. “Odd Objects/of Desire” Appetite for System I Space Gallery, Chicago 1995

Watkin, Mel Blankets, Furniture, Painting 1993-96 Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis 1996

Whitney, Kathleen. “Characteristics of the Fantastic”, nether land Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford 2006


Selected Exhibition Reviews

Colpitt, Frances. “Contemporary Art Month, San Antonio, Texas” CIRCA Fall 1995, p.43 (illustration)

Connors, Thomas. “Chicago (Damien Hirst, Nancy Rubins, Constance Lowe)” Sculpture

July/August 1995, p.45 9 (illustration)

Freeman, David McCall. “Collective Visions: San Antonio Museum of Art”, Artlies, Fall 1998 (illustration)

Goddard, Dan. “Striking Visions: ‘New Works’ Begins a New Year at ArtPace”, San Antonio Express-News, April 8, 1998 (illustration)

Keren, Jackie. “Constance Lowe” Nether Land”, Art New England June/July 2006 p. 22 (illustration)

Kutner, Janet. “Constance Lowe at UNT”, Dallas Morning News, June 18, 1999 (illustration)

Landi, Ann. “The Ecstatic Esthetic” Art News, March 2010 (illustration)

Rushing, W. Jackson. “Permanent Impermanence or The Paradox of Sculpture”, Sculpture October 2000, p. 74 (illustration only)

Tiredo, Michelle. “Constance Lowe at I Space” New Art Examiner May 1995, p.48 (illustration)


Features

Kastner, Jeffrey. Obscure Objects of Desire. Artpaper , No. 4 December 1990, p. 16

Roth, Nancy. Submerged Circuitry. Arts (Minneapolis Institute of Art) December 1990, p. 8


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

Harland Clarke Holdings, San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio Museum of Art

University of Central Florida, Orlando

University Health System, San Antonio, Texas

CE Group, San Antonio, Texas

University of Texas at San Antonio

South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, San Antonio, Texas

First National Bank of South Texas, San Antonio, Texas

Matthews and Branscomb, San Antonio, Texas

North Shore Bank of Commerce, Duluth, Minnesota

Willmar Community College, Willmar, Minnesota (State of Minnesota Percent for Art Purchase)

Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois (State of Illinois Percent for Art Purchase)


EDUCATION

 

MFA 1979 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (painting)

BFA 1973 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (graphic design/painting)

 

1986-1987 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (studies in culture theory and criticism)


 
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