MAC @ IAS: Tristin Lowe - Maelstrom Analytica
MAC @ IAS
4236 Main Street, Philadelphia PA 19127
4/18/2018 - 9/19/2018
Reception April 18th from 6-8 PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAC @ IAS is pleased to present a new sculpture, "Maelstrom Analytica", by Tristin Lowe.
Tristin Lowe is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice delves into the crude and rude, absurd and abject - pushing low-brow, low-tech methods and materials toward unexpected ends. The artist makes drawings from grease paint and fire, uses edible materials such as butter, chocolate and alcohol to make hilarious and sad installations (beds that wet themselves, pillows that smoke), and handcrafted exquisite reproductions of both animate and inanimate objects (an upended trashcan sewn from felt, a mangy, fake-fur fox, a two-story folding chair). Lowe's wry re-imaginings lead the viewer down a path littered with chaos, comedy, and failure.
For this exhibition, Lowe has drawn inspiration from cartoonish depictions of brawls. The cloud of fists and feet - literally a "dust-up" - is a commonly used comedic shorthand for conflict. Lowe uses this trope to explore masculine aggression, blowing the Cloud of Violence to larger than life proportions. The limbs belong to giants engaged in battle; but the reference points we have for viewing this work are rooted in a brand of humor that undermines the rationale for violence. We know from prior examples in popular culture that the outcome of any such "dust-up" will be humiliating at the least, and possibly absurd. The rules of humor suggest that we cannot even expect there to be more than one combatant within the Cloud - the protagonist may be fighting only himself.
Work in Progress, Tristin Lowe
Tristin Lowe received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and studied at Parsons School of Design and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The artist has exhibited widely at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; University of California, San Diego; Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown; Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Switzerland. He has been awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Pew Fellowship,Provincetown Fine Art Work Center Fellowship,
The Fabric Workshop and Museum Residency, and Girard College Residency. He was co-founder and co-director of the non-profit gallery Blohard. Lowe’s work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and The West Collection, as well as numerous private collections.
Tristin Lowe is represented by Fleisher-Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia.
MAC @ IAS is a partnership between Mount Airy Contemporary and Intuitive Art Space.
MAC (Mount Airy Contemporary) has been presenting exhibitions in northwest Philadelphia since 2009. Andrea Wohl Keefe and Colin Keefe have been curating small group shows, primarily contemporary, regional artists. Shows have been exhibited in a carriage house behind their home. They are pleased by the opportunity to present exhibitions at Intuitive Art Space.
Intuitive Art Space, in partnership with Mount Airy Contemporary, is a new community gallery located at the corner of Main and Rector Streets in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia. Quarterly exhibitions, utilizing the large windows of the EY Intuitive office, will be viewable to pedestrians day and night.