Justin Lowman

Justin Lowman (originally, from Janesville, WI) investigates light, surface, and color through various means and materials, fluorescent lights, video projections and filtering scrims/gels in response to specific conditions of built environments. While potentially remote and abstract at one level, much of the meaning is proposed concretely within the actual moments of the viewing situation. He received his MFA in Art from Art Center College of Design in 2009 and two BAs—Art History and Classical Humanities–from the University of Wisconsin in 1996.

His work attempts connections and distinctions between art and architecture through examination and response to given light and material conditions of a specific place.  Factors such as environmental, historical, and community conditions figure prominently in the works’ development.  Subsequent interventions follow as a result often involving additional technologies/filters that focus audience attentions toward the intended goals, a renewed appreciation of a particular place, experiencing the passage of time, and particular moments— to invite viewer perspective, interaction and reflection into a simultaneously personal and world view, a new kind of multiplicity, one that maintains a harmony between nature and culture, the uncontrollable givens and the learning and sharing that surrounds such conditions.

Programs:

• Lucas Artists Program 20th Anniversary