rise up children, sing a glorious future
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12, 6-8 p.m.
For Immediate Release
Special Announcement: As of April 1st, Koplin Del Rio welcomes Sugar Elisa Brown to the gallery as Co-Director.
Tim Lowly Exhibition
Dates: April 12 - May 24, 2008
Koplin Del Rio is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Chicago artist Tim Lowly.
The exhibition's title, rise up children, sing a glorious future, sounds like a grandiose caption to a propaganda poster, but it is more like a whisper that weaves through this somewhat dizzyingly eclectic collection of paintings, drawings, prints and digital works. As in previous exhibitions, Lowly presents a body of work that engages and subverts conventional forms such as portraiture and landscape in an on-going examination of the personal and the every day as points on a road leading elsewhere. Just turned 50, the artist steps further into paradox; producing work that is at once heartbreaking and hopeful, stark and colorful, lucid and obscure, painterly and draftsman-like.
Currently, Tim Lowly is the Director of Exhibitions, instructor, and artist-in-residence at North Park University in Chicago. He has been the recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in 1995 for visual art, and an individual artist grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts in 1987. Lowly has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, as well as solo exhibitions in South Korea. His work can also be seen in collections of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA. This is his second exhibition at the gallery.
For further information or photos, please contact Ronald De Angelis at (310) 836-9055.
Click below for a preview of Tim Lowly images.
http://www.koplindelrio.com/lowly/Lowly2/index.htm