TODD LOWERY

STATEMENT

My work considers the experiential and psychological qualities of place and place-making.

I am fascinated by the qualities and elements of experience that coalesce in our minds as specific locations and how painting exists and performs as locus, locale, and place.

Since 2007, I have divided my time and residence between the American Midwest (Missouri) and the Petralona neighborhood of Athens, Greece. This has fostered a heightened sense and awareness of existing in two places at once. In my work, I explore this notion of bilocation via the capacity of painting to both be, as a sensory object in physical space, and to transport, as a mental and emotional space; to become a parallel site of experience.

The Diatopos series of paintings (2022-present) draw upon salient memories of places found in the eastern Mediterranean. They are built in layers of paint that materialize and map aspects of extant natural and human-built structures, psychological associations, histories, and remembered physical sensations.

In the confluence of these qualities, the works never quite exist as depictions and never quite fully as abstraction.  It is this unstable ground that allows the paintings to reverberate experientially to become a specific place that is like to another; constructing and existing in two or more places concurrently. They exist as a "there" that is phenomenologically present “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         

Diatopos | 2024 | Pool Art Center Gallery| Drury University | Springfield, MO | SOLO EXHIBITION

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

Boundaries | Blocks | Borders | 2021 | Pool Art Center Gallery| Drury University | Springfield, MO | SOLO EXHIBITION

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

Site: Paintings and Place | 2017 | Pool Art Center Gallery | Drury University | Springfield, MO | SOLO EXHIBITION

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

Stratografia T | 2016 | Arnados Cultural Center | Tinos Arts Festival | Tinos, 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