Driving Kifisias Avenue With The Sky On Fire 2022 acrylic on canvas 67 x 96 in. (170 x 244 cm)
STATEMENT
I am fascinated by the qualities and elements of experience that coalesce in our mind as specific locations and how painting can exist as locus, locale, and place. For the past seventeen years, 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) draws upon memories of places found in the eastern Mediterranean and is built in layers of paint that materialize aspects of natural and human-built structures, psychological associations, 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 as a specific place across multiple locations, constructing and existing in two or more places concurrently. 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
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