**Driving Kifisias Avenue With The Sky On Fire** *2022 acrylic on canvas 67 x 96 in. (170 x 244 cm)*

STATEMENT

My work explores the experiential and psychological dimensions of place and place-making. I am fascinated by the ways in which sensory and cognitive elements coalesce in our minds to form distinct locations—and how painting can function as locus, locale, and place.

Since 2007, I have lived between the American Midwest (Missouri) and the Petralona neighborhood of Athens, Greece. My work reflects this dual existence, exploring bilocation through painting’s unique ability to both be—as a sensory object in physical space—and transport—as a mental and emotional space. In this way, painting becomes a parallel site of experience.

I see my paintings as “experience maps,” interpreting moments within spaces, places, and times. Through the interplay of barriers, boundaries, lines, and layered histories, these works evoke the spatial, cultural, and socio-urban forces that shape our sense of place.

The Diatopos series (2022–present) draws upon memories of the eastern Mediterranean, layering paint to materialize aspects of natural and human-built structures, psychological associations, and remembered physical sensations. Hovering between depiction and abstraction, these paintings remain in an ambiguous state, allowing them to resonate as specific yet shifting places—simultaneously present and elusive.

They exist as a “there” that is here.

Bio

Todd Lowery

b. 1964 in Springfield, MO

Lives and works in Springfield, Missouri, and Athens, Greece

STUDIES

School of Visual Arts (SVA) | Master of Fine Arts (MFA) | 1993 | New York, NY

Missouri State University | Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) | 1988 | Springfield, MO

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Extraordinary Terrestrials | 2023 | Phoenix Athens Gallery | Athens, Greece

Suspended Disbelief | 2023 | Phoenix Athens Gallery | Athens, Greece

“12 x 12” | 2022 | Smythe-McKee | online group exhibition

Watercolor USA 2022 | 2022 | Springfield Art Museum | Springfield, MO

Polychromatic States: 3 American Artists in Greece | 2021 | Phoenix Athens Gallery | Athens, Greece

Watercolor USA 2021 | 2021 | Springfield Art Museum | Springfield, MO

Isolario Edit | 2019 | Artnaldas | Nicosia, Cyprus

Featuring: Jacqueline Warren, Tom Parker, Todd Lowery | 2019 | Hyde Gallery | Springfield, MO

YOU ARE HERE | 2018 | Is Not Gallery | Nicosia, Cyprus | SOLO EXHIBITION

YOU ARE HERE preview exhibition | 2018 | The Phoenix Leaders Club | Nicosia, Cyprus | SOLO EXHIBITION

Isolario | 2018 | Little Haarlem Art & Print Studio | Springfield, MO | SOLO EXHIBITION

New Works: Drury University Art Faculty exhibition | 2018 | Pool Art Center Gallery| Drury University | Springfield, MO

Artists in Athens - City of Crisis | 2017 | Michael Cacoyannis Foundation | Athens, Greece

Artists in Athens - City of Crisis | 2017 | Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung | Berlin, Germany

Into the Pyre + Athens for Rent | 2016 | Raum Für Drastische Maßnahmen | Berlin, Germany | SOLO EXHIBITION

Stratografia M | 2016 | McGill University | Montréal , Canada | SOLO EXHIBITION

Stratografia of Ellada | 2016 | Drury Center in Greece | Aegina, Greece | SOLO EXHIBITION

Searching for Athens | 2015 | The Hub Events Center | Athens, Greece | SOLO EXHIBITION

Stratografia O (oil paintings + photographs) | 2015 | Galleri S | Östersund, Sweden | SOLO EXHIBITION

Kärlek | 2015 | Medborgarhusets Light Hall | Sveg, Sweden

Galleri S Group Exhibition | 2015 | Galleri S | Östersund, Sweden

6” Squared | 2015 | Randy Higbee Gallery | Costa Mesa, CA

Solar Decathlon, Drury University competition house works of art | 2015 | 2015 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition | Irvine, CA

Unconventional Wisdom | 2014 | Pool Art Center Gallery | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Modernism Week | 2014 | Christopher Kennedy | Palm Springs, CA

Forces of Nature | 2013-2014 | Pool Art Center Gallery | Drury University | Springfield, MO

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Professor of Fine Arts | 2016-Present | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Associate Professor | 2007-2016 | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Assistant Professor | 2002-2007 | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Adjunct Instructor | 1994-2001 | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Adjunct Instructor | 1995-1999 | Missouri State University | Springfield, MO

ADMINISTRATIVE

Faculty Co-Chair | 2016-2019 | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Department Chair | 2012-2015 | Department of Art & Art History | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Pool Art Center Gallery Director | 2004-2005 | Department of Art & Art History | Drury University | Springfield, MO

HONORS & AWARDS

Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship | 2017 | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Silver Medal | 2006 | Hammons School of Architecture | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching | 2004 | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Commencement Speaker | 2004 | Drury University | Springfield, MO

Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching Nominations | 2003 | 2006 | 2019 | Drury University | Springfield, MO