NANCY LOWRY - The Gallery/Art Placement – $300 to $2,500 Saskatoon

×

1 of 7

Expand

"Construx"

Nancy Lowry, "Construx," 2012, oil on panel, 6 x 6 inches. Courtesy of The Gallery / Art Placement, inc.

×

2 of 7

Expand

"Graff Tree"

Nancy Lowry, "Graff Tree," 2012, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches. Courtesy of The Gallery / Art Placement, inc.

×

3 of 7

Expand

"Hallo"

Nancy Lowry, "Hallo," 2012, oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches. Courtesy of The Gallery / Art Placement, inc.

×

4 of 7

Expand

"Spruced"

Nancy Lowry, "Spruced," 2012, oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches. Courtesy of The Gallery / Art Placement, inc.

×

5 of 7

Expand

"Stroke"

Nancy Lowry, "Stroke," 2012, oil on panel, 20 x 30 inches. Courtesy of The Gallery / Art Placement, inc.

×

6 of 7

Expand

"Cape Scott"

Nancy Lowry, "Cape Scott," 2012, oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches. Courtesy of The Gallery / Art Placement, inc.

×

7 of 7

Expand

"Prussian Knight"

Nancy Lowry, "Prussian Knight," 2011, oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches. Courtesy of The Gallery / Art Placement, inc.

Prev

Next

NANCY LOWRY

The Gallery/Art Placement – $300 to $2,500

Saskatoon

By Maureen Latta

Whenever Jonathan Forrest visits Nancy Lowry’s Saskatoon studio, her paintings catch him off guard. “They don’t fit into a preconceived notion of what a painting should be,” says Forrest, manager of Art Placement in Saskatoon. Lowry, he says, is one of a younger generation of painters “pushing the known boundaries of painting and coming up with her individual, unique approach.”

Lowry divides her time between New York and Saskatchewan – wintering in Brooklyn and summering in Saskatoon and at Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus, where she coordinates workshops and paints outdoors in the region’s boreal forests. In Brooklyn, she digs into the crowded, gritty, human-made spaces and pushes her style deeper into abstraction.

Lowry’s small oil-on-panel works distil the landscape to a finite number of bold gestures against a coloured or white ground. She cites David Milne and Richard Diebenkorn as significant influences. Her work has a spirited confidence that belies their diminutive size. “I’m comfortable with the really small scale,” she says. “I find it intimate and portable for working outside. I can put a whole show in a suitcase.”

Born in Toronto in 1978, Lowry studied art at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. She has been short-listed for the Saskatchewan Arts Board Lieutenant Governor’s 30 Below Award.