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Tim Lowly lives and works in Chicago. Among the bags that he carries: making art, making music, curating and teaching. That said, without his wife Sherrie and daughter Temma he would be little more than a guy with some bags. If that.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (* indicates one person exhibition)
2006
*Conversation, Union University, Jackson, TN
Reality Effect, Santa Ana College, CA
Trans/figure, Gwend Jay Addington Gallery, Chicago,
Spirit and Psyche: The Figure Transformed, The Art Center Highland Park, IL
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco and New York
2005
The Art of the Bookplate, Printworks Gallery, Chicago (included Tim's reduction woodcut Chonju Cemetery, an hommage to the late filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky)
* At Arm's Length, Bethel University in St. Paul, MN
Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Broken Beauty, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna, CA
Portraits of Life (with Riva Lehrer and Leo Neufeld), Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
* Koplin Del Rio, Los Angeles, California
* gescheidle, Chicago, Illinois
* Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, Illinois
Art Chicago, Koplin Del Rio Gallery
Interlochen Center for the Arts (three-person), Michigan
San Francisco International Art Exposition, Koplin Del Rio Gallery
Realism Today, Columbus State University, Georgia
2003
Art Chicago, gescheidle
*College of Lake County
2002
*gescheidle, Chicago. (installation view)
*Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Clarke College, Dubuque, IA
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles: Drawings VI (group drawing exhibition)
The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing (group exhibition), Frye Art Museum, Seattle.
Drawing Salon (group drawing exhibition) Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.
Harboring Beauty (group exhibition), Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago (also at Art Chicago, Navy Pier)
*Judson College, Elgin, IL
2001
*Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN (installation view)
*Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Venus (group exhibition) Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK.
*Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL,. (installation site)
*Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights.
2000
Lyonswier Packer Gallery, Chicago
Printworks Gallery, Chicago: Self-Portraits 2000 (group exhibition)
* Gordon College, Wenham, MA,
Adair Margo Art Gallery, El Paso, Texas, Group Exhibition
Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, Group Exhibition
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles: Drawings V (group drawing exhibition)
Lyonswier Packer Gallery, Group Exhibition
* Greenville College, Greenville, IL.
1999* Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
Euro Galleries, Minneapolis, MN.
* Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.
* Snite Art Museum, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.
Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1998
* Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX.
Portraits, Elmhurst Museum, Elmhurst, IL.
* Marywood University, Scranton, PA
* Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI
* Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Annual Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
Parallel Visions, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
1997
* Lyons-Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Searching for the Spiritual, Hope College, Holland, MI
* Art Space Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Through a Glass Dimly, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
1996
* Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI.
* Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA.
1995
* Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI.
* Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI.
Arts in Healing, The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH.
* Condeso Lawler Gallery, New York, NY.
* Isis Gallery, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.
Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1994* Asbury College, Wilmore, KY.
Veiled Images, S.F. Austin University, Nacodoches, TX (traveling exhibition)
Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993
View from the Bed: A Personal Look at Illness and Disability, Museum of Science, Chicago, IL.
* Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI.
* Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
* Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1992
* North Park College, Chicago, IL.
* Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.* Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
Self-portraits, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, NY.
1991
* Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.
* Saint Francis College, Fort Wayne, IN.
1990
*The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.
THE CHICAGO SHOW, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
1989
* Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.
FESTIVAL ARTS , Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.
WEST-MICHIGAN REGIONAL, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI.
1988
* Mott Community College, Flint, MI.
THE 1980'S: A NEW GENERATION, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1987
MID-MICHIGAN EXHIBITION, Midland Center for the Arts, MI.
Contemporary Art Workshop (two-person), Chicago, IL.
1986
THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER BIENNIAL, Cincinnati, OH (traveling exhibition).
1984
* Arts Center, Chonju, South Korea.
SELECTED REFERENCES (*Indicates work is reproduced)
Click on highlighted selections for texts
Cherith Lundin, At Arms Length (brochure essay), Bethel University, MN, 2005. *
Prescott, Theodore L. (editor), A Broken Beauty, Eerdmans Publishing, 2005.
Lauren Viera, The Chicago Tribune, November 19, 2004.*
Fred Camper, The Reader (Chicago), November 22, 2002, January 14, 2000* & August 14, 1997.*
Alan Artner, The Chicago Tribune, November 22, 2002*, December 23, 1999*, May 27, 1999*, August 14, 1997*, & October 6, 1989
Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News-Press, Spetember 12, 2002.*
Karen Halvorsen-Schreck, exhibition brochure, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, 2002.*
P. Carter Newton, The Galena Gazette, April 3, 2002. *
John Brunetti, exhibition brochure, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL. 2001. *
Nathan Matteson, New City, (Chicago), Vol. 15, No. 648, November, 2000.
Victor Cassidy Artnet.com Magazine "Prairie Smoke" March 23 2000*
Greg Waskowsky, Christianity and the Arts, Summer 1999.*
Ann Wiens, New City (Chicago), May 1999.
Joyce Kubiski, exhibition brochure, The Snite Museum, South Bend, IN, 1999.*
John Brunetti, New Art Examiner, July/August, 1998.*
Conrad Bakker, The Paper (Grand Rapids), October 22, 1998.
Soo-Jin Park, exhibition catalogue, Art Space Seoul, Seoul, Korea, May 1997.*
John Wilson, exhibition catalogue, "Searching for the Spiritual", Hope College, Holland, MI, 1997.*
Roger Green, The Grand Rapids Press, October, 1995.*
Karen Halvorsen-Schreck, Image Magazine, Fall, 1994.*
Nicholas Capasso, exhibition catalogue, "Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing", DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1994.*
Bruce Pepich, exhibition brochure, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI, 1993.*
Sylvia Krissoff, The Grand Rapids Press, August 20, 1992.*
Susan Bergman, exhibition catalogue, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, 1992.*
Lynda Barckert, exhibition catalogue, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, 190.*
John Bakker, The Banner, December 18, 1989.*
Lynda Barckert, New Art Examiner, November, 1989, p. 42.
David McCracken, The Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1989.*
Exhibition publication, "The 1980's: A New Generation", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.*
David Benson, Grand Rapids Magazine, August 1987, p. 13.*
Exhibition catalogue, The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial, Cincinnati, 1986.*
Jeff Thompson, CIVA Newsletter, Summer 1986.*
Martha Huntley, The Korea Times, July 11, 1984.*
North Park University: Gallery director (1994-present) Artist-in-residence and Assistant Professor (1995-present).
Koplin Del Rio (Los Angeles)
Adair Margo Art Gallery (El Paso)
Art Space Seoul (South Korea)
Grants
2005 Illinois Arts Council, Fellowship in Visual Art.1995 Illinois Arts Council, Fellowship in Visual Art.
1987 Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant.
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK - Imago Dei, 1991 , Study of Temma on Earth, 1999,& Untitled (Kalin), 1997
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.
Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
Frye Museum, Seattle, WA. Temma on Earth
Grand Vallery State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
The Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL.
The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles - Rise (2), 1997
The Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI - Beacon (Bless the Bastard), 1991
The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI - Heaven's Gate, 1988
The McDonold's Corporate Collection, Oak Brook, IL - Annunciate (They will one day walk on wind), 1986
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY - Communicant, 1987
The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL - Age of Angels, 1997 and Well, 1992
Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
The Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI.
Selected Curatorial Activities
1994-present Director of Exhibitions, Carlson Tower Gallery,
North Park University, Chicago, Illinois.
Group exhibitions curated include:In Place, 2004
Home Installation, 2001
Shake the Coat: A Midwestern Tribute to Gregory Gillespie, 2000
Quilt, 2000
Building Beauty, 1999
Seen from the Other Side, 1998
Progeny, 1997
Natural Abstraction, 1995
Stations, 1995
Reflexion Y Representacion, 19942005 After the Fact, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL (curator)
2003 Really, gescheidle, Chicago, IL (curator)
2000 Almost Nothing, Dynamite Gallery Project, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)
1998 Michigan Artists Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek, Michigan (juror)
1997 Chicago: A Spiritual Landscape, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago (curator)
1998 What We Have Seen, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)
1995 The Art of Healing, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids (juror)
1995 Small Paintings Big Shoulders, Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids & Trinity Christian College, Chicago (juror)
1993 Within and Without, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)
1988 Flower of the Field.Voice in the Attic, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago (curator)
1989 Object . Icon, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)
Ongoing curatorial project: the links page of this site, don't miss it.
Education
BFA, Calvin College, 1981.
Born
Hendersonville, North Carolina, 1958.
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