Nancy Lowry: Colour in Place

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Nancy Lowry, “Fir Peat's Sake,” 2019

(courtesy of the Gallery)

Saskatoon-based artist Nancy Lowry explores place with paintings that explore the intersection of abstraction and landscape. In this exhibition, the largest survey of her practice to-date, recent paintings are placed alongside a selection of works from the last two decades held in collections in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Lowry’s intuitive formalist approach reveals an intimate awareness of landscape and prairie abstraction; references to history and nature are both embedded in her work.  The dynamism in her paintings draws from Lowry’s participation in numerous residencies in Canada and beyond, beginning when Lowry attended the renowned Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops as a teen. Lowry pays homage to her time at Emma Lake and several of the artists she encountered there by including their work alongside her own in the exhibition.

Included in the exhibition are works by artists Reta Cowley, Mina Forysth, Dorothy Knowles, Margaret Vanderhaeghe, Tammi Campbell, Landon Mackenzie, Elizabeth McIntosh, Leah Rosenberg, Monica Tap, and Sylvia Ziemann.