Lynda LoweBy a Grace of Sense

The title for this show comes from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. I often read his poems, taking a section and considering it from different perspectives, watching it appear in the development of a painting, or embedding the script within layers of paint. In one section of Burnt Norton, the phrase “by a grace of sense” hovers jewel-like, asking us to reverse the expected sequence of words.

It is by a grace of sense one realizes that no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert, that the world is grace-full, and charged with limitless content. This sensing moves us beyond “practical desire”, beyond the constraints of time and the vacuity of experience into where the ineffable sublime might be revealed. Even the most obscure and ordinary aspects of our lived experience can reveal mysterious spirit and content. Let’s call this wonder or awe. In this state – anything, everything – reveals the link between the real and the super-real, reconciling the physical world with the numinous. I find myself often playing on the edge of this frontier, examining what is knowable and familiar, and speculating about the infinite and enigmatic.

This thinking is relevant to many of my paintings. The imagery in “Deeper Well” depicts the elliptical rim of a bowl echoing into the dark mysterious space. Or perhaps the reverse can be seen too, the bowl emerging from this deeper place. The painting titled “Erhebung” takes T.S. Eliot’s German expression of exaltation and Kantian

ideas of the super-sensible and visually offers a serene blue zone below a very active geometric torus figure, the only recognizable imagery being leafy branches which ground the imagery in a familiar physical setting.

Some of my new paintings are entirely abstract, some gestural and geometric, or with a more minimal color field. An Asian influence is evident in these. Growing up, I was awed by the tales of China my aunt and uncle told. They lived in that country for thirty years and later he became ambassador to Taiwan. They collected many art objects, some that I now own. Looking at these meaningful paintings with their bold gestural depictions, living on the Pacific Rim, and certainly being influenced by my own travels to these places, it’s easy to understand that an Eastern aesthetic seeps into my Western mindset.

Several of these paintings are paired with the experimental glass vessels I made during a residency at the Museum of Glass. There is a symbiosis between bowl as object and as image; marks and surfaces acting as source material for each other. Vessels continue their central casting here. Evoking many associations, the bowl serves as a ritual, domestic, and archetypal object. It remains a compelling symbol in my work, ultimately representing the embodiment of the fluid act of giving and receiving and the generous offerings of the moment.

Lynda LoweBy a Grace of Sense Gail Severn Gallery, December 2016

Deeper WellOil, watercolor and wax on panel36” x 45”

Temenos IIOil, watercolor and wax on panel

38” x 32”

Temenos IIIOil, watercolor and wax on panel38” x 32”

Night VisionOil, watercolor and wax on panel

44” x 36”

Limina IIHandblown glass with painted base on panel7.25” x 6.5” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina IIIHandblown glass with painted base on panel

7” x 7” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina IVHandblown glass with painted base on panel7” x 8” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina IXHandblown glass with painted base on panel

6.5” x 8” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina IXXHandblown glass with painted base on panel9.5”x 7” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina VHandblown glass with painted base on panel

5.25” x 7.5” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina VIHandblown glass with painted base on panel5.5” x 8” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina VIIHandblown glass with painted base on panel

4.5” x 9” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina VIIIHandblown glass with painted base on panel8.5” x 7” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina XIHandblown glass with painted base on panel

5.5” x 8” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina XIIHandblown glass with painted base on panel7.5” x 8” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina XIIIHandblown glass with painted base on panel

6.5” x 6.5” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina XXIHandblown glass with painted base on panel8.5” x 6” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Limina XXHandblown glass with painted base on panel

4.5” x 9” dia 10” x 10” x 2” base

Lux Limina XVHandblown glass with painted base on panelBase: 12” x 12” x 2” Vessel: 9” x 6” dia

Lux Limina XVIHandblown glass with painted base on panel

Base: 12” x 12” x 2” Vessel: 7” x 6” dia

TransienceOil, watercolor and wax on panel42” x 32”

Inner SkyOil, watercolor and wax on panel

36” x 36”

TetractysOil, watercolor and wax on panel24” x 48”

As if Standing on FishesOil, watercolor and wax on panel

38” x 32”

Between ThoughtsOil, watercolor and wax on three panels10” x 10” x 2”

By A Grace of SenseOil, watercolor and wax on panel

45” x 36”

ErhebungOil, watercolor and wax on panel38” x 32”

Still and MovingOil, watercolor and wax on panel

36” x 72”

Ex Libris #2 (Swallowtail)Oil, watercolor and wax on panel15” x 10”

Ex Libris #4 (Brush)Oil, watercolor and wax on panel

15” x 10”

Ex Libris #12 (Fish and 3 Butterflies)Oil, watercolor and wax on panel15” x 10”

Ex Libris #13 (White Flying Bird)Oil, watercolor and wax on panel

15” x 10”

Drawn to Water IIOil, watercolor and wax on panel42” x 32”

Drawn to Water IIIOil, watercolor and wax on panel

40” x 29.5”

LightfallOil, watercolor and wax on panel47.5” x 24”

RosethornOil, watercolor and wax on panel

28” x 7.5”

Form and Formless (Group 1)Oil, watercolor and mixed media on four panels10” x 10” x 2” each panel

Form and Formless (Group 2)Oil, watercolor and mixed media on two panels

10” x 10” x 2” each panel

Form and Formless (Group 3)Oil, watercolor and mixed media on two panels10” x 10” x 2” each panel

Form and Formless #9Oil, watercolor and mixed media on panel

10” x 10” x 2”

Form and Formless #10Oil, watercolor and mixed media on panel10” x 10” x 2”

Form and Formless #11Oil, watercolor and mixed media on panel

10” x 10” x 2”

Form and Formless #12Oil watercolor and mixed media on panel10” x 10” x 2”

Hearing Music , T.S. Eliot seriesWatercolor, monotype, and drawing media on Rives paper

30” x 22”

The Ash Burnt Roses Leave, T.S. Eliot seriesWatercolor, monotype, and drawing media on Rives paper30” x 22”

The Still Point of the Turning World, T.S. Eliot seriesWatercolor, monotype, and drawing media on Rives paper

30” x 22”

Entering the Garden, T.S. Eliot seriesWatercolor, monotype, and drawing media on Rives paper30” x 22”

LYNDA LOWE

EDUCATIONMaster of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, INBachelor of Fine Arts, cum laude, departmental honors, Alma College, Alma, MIAcademia della Bella Arte Foreign Study: Art History and Drawing, Perugia, Italy.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2016 By a Grace of Sense, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Arden Gallery, Boston, MA 2015 Patra Passage: Full Circle, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Resonance, Abmeyer+Wood Fine Art Seattle, WA 2014 Poiesis, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2013 The Patra Passage Beginnings: launch at Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA and return exhibition scheduled for February - May, 2015, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID2012 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Forre Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO2010 Phase Shift, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2009 The Uncertainty Principle, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2008 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2007 Not Yet Spoken, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2006 F/ Light, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2005 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA Harper College, Palatine Illinois2004 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2003 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2002 Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL Miami University Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, OH Arden Gallery, Boston MA2001 Peyton Wright Gallery Santa Fe, NM Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL Arden Gallery Boston, MA Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, IL2000 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX Northern Illinois University Museum, DeKalb, IL Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL1999 Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL Fermi Lab Gallery, Batavia, IL Astra Gallery, Richmond, VA Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL Alma College, Alma, MI1998 Nine Gallery, Portland, OR Westminster College, Philadelphia, PA OnStage Gallery, DeKalb, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Art Market San Francisco, CA, Gail Severn Gallery Color V, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2015 State of Nature IV, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Collaborative Visions II: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Ukrainian Museum, New York, NY2014 State of Nature III, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2013-14 Preview 2014, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2012 State of Nature, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Art Aspen, Forre Gallery, Aspen, CO

2011 Nature Revisited, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Art Chicago, Gail Severn Gallery, Chicago, IL Past as Prologue – Preview 2012, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2010 Surface XI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Sense of Place XI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2010 Speak for the Trees, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA Art Chicago 2010 Art Fair, Merchandise Mart, IL2009 Surface, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Collaborative Visions: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Chicago Cultural Ctr., IL Collaborative Visions: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Collaborative Visions: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN Neddy Fellowship Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA2008 Eloquent Flower XII, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Surface, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Seeds of Compassion, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA2007 Eloquent Flower XI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2006 Eloquent Flower X, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2005 Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR2004 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Northern Illinois University Gallery, Collaborations Chicago, IL2003 Fifteenth Anniversary Show, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL2002 Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX2001 Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR2000 Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery Ragdale Foundation Chicago, IL

1998 Astra Gallery, Richmond, VA Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery, Sightings Chicago, IL.1997 The Arts Center, Iowa City Arts Council, Paper/Fiber XVIII, Iowa City, IA Gahlberg Gallery College of DuPage. Glen Ellyn, IL1996 Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Kootenay Exhibition Centre Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada Corvallis Arts Center Corvallis, OR Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL1995 Chautauqua International Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY. Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR

GRANTS AND AWARDS2009 Neddy Fellowship Nominee, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, WA2008, Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency Grants, Lake Forest, IL2004-2002 Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency Grants, Lake Forest, IL2003 Ragdale Foundation, Distinguished Resident Award, Lake Forest, IL2001 Artist Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council.1999 Special Assistance Grant Illinois Arts Council 1997 Artist Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council. 1994-1999 Artist in Education and Arts Resource: Twenty Separate Grants, Illinois Arts Council, 1996-1999 Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency Grants, Lake Forest, IL1991 Illinois Percentage for Art in Architecture Commission, Starved Rock St. Park, IL1988 Aldeen Foundation Grant1979 Fulbright Hays Foundation Grant1979 Ford Foundation Grant

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE1995-2000 Part-Time Instructor, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL1992-1995 Instructor, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 1989- 1992 Part-Time Instructor College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL1980- 1988 Associate Professor, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL1975-1979 Assistant Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

CORPORATE COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONSArt in Embassies, Swiss Consulate, Bern, SwitzerlandSeattle University, Seattle, WAPalo Alto Medical Foundation, Sutter Health Palo Alto, CAEl Camino Hospital, Los Gatos, CASeeds of Compassion Collection, Seattle University, Seattle, WAOxford Biotech Company, Boston, MADynamic Machine Works Boston, MAIllinois State Museum, Springfield, ILState of Illinois, Percent for Art, Starved Rock State Park, Utica, ILA.A.R. Corporation World Headquarters, Woodale, ILKane County Circuit Courthouse, Geneva, ILMinnesota Lawyers Mutual Building, Minneapolis, MNVan Andel Center, Pine Rest Hospital, Grand Rapids, MIElmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst, IL. Elmhurst Physician’s Conference Center, Elmhurst ILLoyola University Medical Center, Maywood, ILGraham Center Museum, Wheaton, ILPresident’s Building Complex, Des Plaines, IL

REVIEWS AND ARTICLESEncaustic, by Kim Bernard and Ashley Rooney, bound book, 2015, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.

100 Northwest Artists, by Ashley Rooney, bound book, 2012 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd.Green Art: Trees, Roots and Leaves, by Ashley Rooney, bound book, 2014 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd.Numero Cinq Magazine, “The Object of the Object Interview with Lynda Lowe” by Nance Van Winkle, December 2013Tacoma News Tribune, “Philosophical ceramic-based Patra Passage at Museum of Glass” by Rosemary Ponnekanti, September 25, 2013Poison Sonnets, by Joseph Heithaus, featured cover art. David Roberts Books, Cincinnati, OH. 2012Good Reason, by Jennifer Habel, featured cover art. NSFPS Press, Auburn, AL. 2012Falling and Flying, exhibition catalog published by Forre Fine Art, August, 2012Speak for the Trees, 200 page hardcover book, composed by Andria Friesen and published by Marquand Books, Inc. Seattle, WA. 2009Psi: The Uncertainty Principle, exhibition catalog, essay by Margaret Hawkins and interview by Jane Milosch, published by Gail Severn Gallery, February 2009ArtNews, October, 2005 reviewed by Joanne SilverCincinnati Review, featured artist, Fall 2005Boston Globe, May 24, 2002 “Imagining Reality” reviewed by Cate McQuaidChicago Reader, November 2, 2001 “Doubt Springs Eternal” reviewed by Fred CamperTHE Magazine, Santa Fe Magazine of the Arts, July, 2001 “Lynda Lowe: By a Grace of Sense” reviewed by Richard TobinSurface Design Magazine, Winter 2001, “Intellect and Intuition: The Paradoxical ““Pairings of Lynda Lowe” by Barbara Lee Smith pg. 36-39.DeKalb Daily Chronicle, Sunday April 16, 2000 “Of two Minds: paintings by Lynda Lowe” reviewed by Ben Mahmoudartscope.net “In Conguency” reviewed by G. Jurek Polanski May 15, 2000 Paso Times, July 21, 2000 “Great minds think alike” reviewed Claudia LeosFiberarts Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1996 “Expanding the Role of Art in Education”, by Lynda Lowe pg. 41-45. Artwork also featured in “New Works” pg. 20

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Photographs by Lynda Lowe, Russell Johnson, Darryl Schmidt: Art Capture.

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Lynda LoweBy a Grace of Sense

Poiesis July 2014 Gail Severn GalleryPhotograph by Tom Prater

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