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GATE (Glendale Art Temporary Exhibitions)
Curated
by Cletus Dalgslish-Schommer
November 2011
Flag
Stop Art
Tm
Gratkowski, FLAG STOP, Director
September 2011
Strategies of Accumulation
University Art Gallery and Room Gallery UCI
curated by Flora Kao
January 2011
The Big Light Show
Anderson Ranch
curated by Barbara Bloemink, Paul Collins
October 2010
Assembledge
Las Cienegas Projects
curated by Steven Hull
September 2010
Box Scheme
Actual Size Gallery
curated by Ana Vejzovic Sharp
July 2010
Axis Mundi
MFA Thesis Show/ Cal Arts
2/25/10
D300
Mid-Rez show
Last Supper 10/09
ID 517
Distributed Gallery Telic Arts Exchange
Curated by Sam Durant & Nancy Buchanan
May 2009
Beyond Geometry
Lime Gallery
California Institute of the Arts
January 2009 MFA 1 show
Back in the Discourse
Main Gallery
California Institute of the Arts
February 2009
Selected Works Guest Curator Karen Higa
Bolsky Gallery December 2007
Down the Rabbit Hole:
An Exploration of Fantasy and Form
Curated by the Loyola Marymount Curatorial Group
November 2007
Corpus Callosum
Curated by Dana Duff
October 2007
Marilyn Lowey
9/2010
When I first understood lighting, I realized lighting was knowing how to see. With that understanding I was able to create dramatic environments and theatrical tableaus where I continually played with the interaction of the physiological and the psychological. After many years as a theatrical lighting designer, I transitioned my practice into art making,re-contextualizing those experiences into a more critical and rigorous gesture. The viewer is essential to many of my works through the active engagement of touching, breathing and moving. Although some works involve state of the art technologies, viewers experiences more typically occur in the realm of human-to-human interactions. My practice is a combination of minimalism, theatricality, the engagement of phenomenology, and the philosophy of how the body "thinks" through unmediated perception rather than through language. My working process is subtractive, removing elements until only those essential for conveying a work's meaning remain. Unlike Dan Flavin or James Turrell, who occasionally pointed tubes towards the wall and who went to great lengths to conceal the apparatus, I never hide my materials. By making them so self-evident, I allow my illusions to be revealed and fall apart even as they are created. I am interested in the difficulties and disappointments of recollection. My goal is to challenge the viewer's perceptions by suggesting that the images in our minds are not always what they seem; how we recall what we see is different than what we have seen. I do not always provide an answer in my investigations but rather ask more questions.
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