Constance Lowe
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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. Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas (catalog)
2006
  nether land. Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (brochure)
2005
  Constance Lowe: Graft.  cactusbra 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
  striking likeness.  “New Works 98.1: Tadashi Kawamata, Glenn Ligon, Constance Lowe,” International Artist in Residency Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (brochure)
  Colony.  Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1996
  Blankets, Furniture, Painting 1993-96.  Forum for Contemporary Art (now Contemporary Art Museum), 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
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. McNey Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
  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 (catalog) Travels to University of Rochester, New York and Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia
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.  cactusbra Space, San Antonio, Texas
  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
  Visual Arts Award. Artist Foundation of San Antonio
    Faculty Research Development Leave, University of Texas at San Antonio
2003
  ArtPace Travel Grant (for travel in Italy), San Antonio, Texas
    Faculty Research Award. University of Texas at San Antonio (also 2000, 1996, 1991)
1998
  Residency.  International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
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, Kim Cadmus Owens, Richard Martinez, Dan Sutherland). Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas
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, October 2003 (feature article and cover illustration)
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, p. 29 (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 CircuitryArts (Minneapolis Institute of Art) December 1990, p.8
     
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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
Willmar Community College, Willmar, Minnesota  (State of Minnesota Percent for Art Purchase)
North Shore Bank of Commerce  Duluth, Minnesota
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)
 
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio
 
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