b. Maryland, 1987
Holly Lowen works with pen, charcoal, oil and pastel to create precise realist scenes rooted in the artist’s dreams, psychological relationships, and the natural world. Lowen’s layered washes of paint achieve a suspended quality, making visual references to the haunting perfection of commercial photography and cinema. In recent paintings, Lowen depicts multi-figured compositions of bodies engaged in sport or enclosed in domestic spaces, exploring the tension between primal instincts and societal structures.
