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Changing Currents: The Art of Truman Lowe

Art Exhibition

 

Artist Truman Lowe had a love for water — whether floating out on it in a canoe or using his artistic talent to replicate its quiet stillness or rushing movement. 

It is fitting that the next exhibition of Lowe’s art is at a place where the waters of three rivers meet — in La Crosse. The city is also home to Lowe’s alma mater, UW-La Crosse, a place close to his heart, according to family and friends. Lowe, an internationally-acclaimed artist, died in March 2019 at age 75.  

The exhibition celebrating his life and work runs Jan. 31-Feb. 21 at UWL. An opening reception will be from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, at University Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, 333 N. 16th St.  

The exhibit’s title, “Changing Currents,” comes from something Lowe wrote on a sketchpad and exhibition co-curators, Jo Ortel, and Truman’s wife, Nancy Lowe, found while going through his collections. Ortel says Truman frequently created art focused on water, rivers and streams. The exhibition will focus on that work, as well as drawings of Native American Ho-Chunk artifacts and Woodland Indian objects. 

A 1969 graduate of UWL, Truman became a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department at UW-Madison. He also grew his reputation internationally as an artist throughout his career — exhibiting worldwide with prominent accomplishments such as a sculpture in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden at the White House and being named the first curator of contemporary art for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. He was known for his originality and contemporary take on Ho-Chunk art. 

“He is a Wisconsin treasure, a Ho-Chunk treasure and an American treasure as far as I'm concerned,” says Ortel, who wrote a book on Truman, “Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe.” https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2346.htm

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When

Past occurrences (1)

  • Friday, Jan. 31, 2020

Where

First floor, Center for the Arts

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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse First floor, Center for the Arts

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Deborah-Eve Lombard at 608.785.8831 or dlombard@uwlax.edu.

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