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 Jean Lowe is a California-based artist who earned her MFA at the University of California, San Diego in 1988, the same year she presented her first solo exhibition at the Dietrich Jenny Gallery in Downtown San Diego. Lowe earned her BA at the University of California, Berkeley and was the winner of the first Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation Art Prize in 2000. "Jean Lowe is about as versatile an artist as you can find and gets her ideas across beautifully and artisically," says Gough W. Thompson Jr., President of the Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation.
Current Exhibit: Green Acres
Featuring Works by San Diego Art Prize Recipients, Jean Lowe and Iana Quesnell
November 18 - February 18, 2007
Location: 628 L Street, San Diego
For More Information: http://lstreetfineart.com
For 18 years, Lowe has been inspired and challenged to make work that is visually seductive, viscerally engaging, but also provocative in its critique of how we live in relation to other species and the environment. Lowe enjoys creating artwork that tackles difficult issues such as over-development, sex, power and the widespread mistreatment of animals.
"Jean Lowe is an artist of unique talent and extraordinary imagination. Whether confronting a single object or inhabiting a large-scale installation, Lowe's sculptural practice strikes the viewer with its incisive wit and probing social concern. Her intellect embraces an admirably broad spectrum of art historical thinking - from classical statuary, to rococo-inspired interesors, to romantic landscape aesthetics, to post-modern ironical comment." Derrick Cartwright, Executive Director of San Diego Musuem of Art
EDUCATION
1983
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA
1988
M.F.A., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988
Dietrich Jenny Gallery, San Diego, CA
1989
“Grand Plan,” Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Bad Boss Story,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
1990
“A Dilettante’s Conversation on the Topics of Anthropocentrism and Western Consumerism,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
1991
“A Dilettante’s Conversation on the Topics of Anthropocentrism and Western Consumerism,” Laguna Art Museum, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, CA
1992
“Tale of the Bull/Cuento del Toro,” (Collaboration with Kim MacConnel), Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico
“Jardin Zoologique,” Founders Gallery, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
“A Dilettante’s Conversation on the Topics of Anthropocentrism and Western Consumerism,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA and Oregon School for Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1993
“Lost Nature,” Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
“Bull Story,” (Collaboration with Kim MacConnel), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
“Real Nature: Accomplishments of Man,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1994
“Domestic Space,” GracieMansion Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Jean Lowe,”, Galerie van Mourik, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Real Nature: Accomplishments of Man,” Madison Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
“A Lesson in Civics, inSight ‘94” Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico
1995
“Bull Story,” (Collaboration with Kim MacConnel), Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
“Accomplishments of Man,” California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
1996
“Pomp and Circumstance,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY and Galerie Francoise
“How to Win at Scratchers,” Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
“Accomplishments of Man,”The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1997
“Dr. Pohatten’s," Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1998
“Cat’s Cradle,” Galerie Francoise et ses freres, Lutherville, MD
“In the Body of Manifest Destiny,” Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1999
“Zoo Story,” (Collaboration with Kim MacConnel), University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
2000
“Jean Lowe: Selected Works 1993-2000,” The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
“Selected Books,” Margeaux Kurtie Modern Art, Madrid, NM
“The Evolutionary Cul de Sac,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
“Books and Ideas in an Age of Anxiety: Selections From the Annex,” Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
2001
“Vacation,” Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
“Jean Lowe,” Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2002
“Gentlemen’s Club,” Santa Ana Arts Complex, Santa Ana, CA
2004
THE LONELINESS CLINIC , Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
EMPIRE STYLE, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
THE COURSE OF THE EMPIRE, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2005
GRAND TOUR, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
LIBRARY, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2006
THE LONELINESS CLINIC, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
GREEN ACRES, L Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
2007 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
THE LONELINESS CLINIC, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1983
“Narrative Art,” Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1985
“Seventh Annual Spring Art Exhibition,” Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Association, Austin, TX
1986
“Exhibition Series for Emerging Artists,” Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
“Artist’s Guild Open Juried Show,” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1988
“Fate of the Animals,” Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1989
“Drawings By Artists We Like,” Dietrich Jenny Gallery, San Diego, CA
1990
“New York, New Work,” Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
“Satellite Intelligence: New Art from Boston and San Diego,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA and MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge, MA
“Summer Group Show,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
1991
“Comfort,” Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Sightseeing, Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY
“To Wit: Timely Objects with Ironic Tendencies,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1992
“From the Studio: Recent Painting and Sculpture by 20 California Artists,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
“We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming…” White Columns, New York, NY and District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
1993
“From Destruction to Reclamation: Endangered Life,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
“USA-Today,” Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands and Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1994
“Southern Exposure 20th Anniversary Exhibition,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
“Bad Girls West,” Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“Box Show,” Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
“Dancing Frogs and Altarwings: Animal Allegories in Contemporary Art, “Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
“Wildlife,” California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
“Here,” Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1995
“Wallpaper Works,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
“Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
“Going For Baroque,” The Contemporary (at the Walters Art Gallery), Baltimore, MD
“Fun HOuse,” E.S. Vandam, New York, NY
“Issues of Empire,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
1996
“Animamundi,”, James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, NY
“Home Show II,”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
“Subversive Domesticity,” Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
1997
“Animal Kingdom,” New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
“Sixteen Artists From California,” California Rush, Sag Harbor, NY
“In Memory of Pleasure,” Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1998
“Group Show,” Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1999
“Hollybury, USA,” Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2000
“The Next Wave, New Painting in Southern California,” California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
“New Voices,”The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2001
“Lateral Thinking: Art of 1990’s,”Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
2002
“Officina America,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
“I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art, “San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2003
“Sprawl: New Suburban Landscapes,” University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA.
2005
SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, Miseum ofContemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
INTER-STATES, DNA Gallery, Provincetown. MA
CONVERSATIONAL LAG, Volume Gallery, New York, NY
LAPD, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SPRAWL: new suburban landscapes , Sweeny Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
SKOWHEGAN FACULTY EXHIBITION, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine
i-5 RESURFACING: FOUR DECADES OF CALIFORNIA CONTEMPORARY ART , San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
RED, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA
2006
MARRIED TO ART, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
ART INSIDE THE PARK, Jefferson, MO
THE ARTFUL JESTER, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT
NATIONAL PSYCHE, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
SUMMER GROUP SCULPTURE SHOW, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
WORLD WITHOUT END, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2007
MULTIPLE VANTAGE POINTS: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WOMEN ARTISTS, 1980-2006 , Municiple Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING
1992 - present
Visiting Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2001
Visiting Lecturer, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1991
WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship (Sculpture)
Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYC
1992
Fellowship Support, Art Matters, Inc., NYC
Grant, California Arts Council
Grant, Culture and Animals Foundation
1993
WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship (Sculpture)
2000
Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation (Purchase Award)
2001
CalArts/Alpert Ucross Residency Prize
2006
San Diego Art Prize
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