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Artist: Gayle Stott Lowry ( United States ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Contemporary American Art
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Biography: “These paintings represent liminal space, where transitions from one place to another, one realm to another, one existential plane to another can occur. This rite of passage can involve change to the participant. Ambiguity, openness and indeterminacy characterize the liminal state. Normal limits to thought, self-understanding and behavior are relaxed, offering new perspectives.
“Familiar spaces are revisited, unfamiliar ones explored, creating the tension and possibility that exists between the two. Within the structure there is integration of the light and the dark.
“Things are discarded, left behind, released as forward movement takes place. Focus is refined, adjustments are made, and vision is clarified in these expansive, uninhabited rooms. This creates a place for new inspiration, new life.
“The historic mansions depicted are themselves in a liminal state. Having been utilized as office space by the State of North Carolina for the past 20 years, they are currently vacant and awaiting sale near downtown Raleigh in order to return them to their intended residential usage. In varying states of disrepair and neglect, they anticipate their restoration to their original state of elegance.
“The textured, impasto paint in some of the paintings, created with a palette knife, are suggestive of the rough, crumbling surfaces brought about by the lack of care and the passage of time. Evidence of the life that was lived in these houses remains in the beautiful patina of the surfaces. The smoother paint application, created with a brush, gives a more refined appearance to the rooms. It suggests the original state of the houses and the future potential that exists in the process of transformation.
Just like houses, we find ourselves in liminal states at critical junctures in our lives. When we do, may we gain insight, clarity and appreciation of our own wounds, our own patina and our own light and darkness.”
- Gayle Stott Lowry
Gayle Stott Lowry studied Art and Primary Education at East Carolina University. She continued her studies of painting with Wolf Kahn and Sidney Goodman and was awarded a Residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her art has been exhibited in shows at Meredith College, Duke University, the Fayetteville Museum of Art, the University of Virginia, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has also presented lectures at the Lucy Daniels Foundation, the Duke Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Asheville Art Museum, and the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute. Her work is collected nationally by individuals and corporations alike and was recently acquired by the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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