Small abstract sculptures based on Heather's love of the seaside began as hand drawings then became AI digital embossed prints, and then back to formed lenticular mounted on clear acrylic bases. These proved to be too fragile, so Lowe then used molded resin as a support, which also gave her more freedom with the 3d shapes. Art is an ongoing process.
Resin mold
Two views of above sculpture
Sand & Sea Sculptures
Hosts
Bas Relief sculptures titled HOST. Some definitions of the word “host” include: one who entertains guests, a place or organization that provides the space for an event, a plant or animal that another lives on as a parasite, a large number of something, the holy bread that is eaten at Communion.
Works in progress: paper pulp molds, inserted lenticular cut outs and other mixed media.
Sea and Land
Communion
Target
Bubble
Broken Wheel
Fleurs
"It comes back to me!...Everything, Flower, well, furrow. I saw yawn beneath its eye like beating hearts"
Baudelaire, "The Romantic Sun"-- trans. Christopher Mulrooney
Traitor's Eyes
Dusty Rose
Purples
Beginning with studies of flowers in Griffith Park using ink on paper, Heather made lenticular interlaces so that flower shapes morph and flip. Click on the first three images to see movement. These ten lenticulars were exhibited at Altadena Library and some at bG Gallery in Santa Monica.
Iris in the Rain
Alcoves
3-D Lenticulars, 2017-18. Beginning with a theatrical maquette created with painting and assemblage, these artworks are constructed using many layers of photographs. Successive perspectives combined on a lenticular lens generate a sensation of depth and animated form. Questions about ego, vanity, loss and other conditions of our human experience were explored.
There's the Rub, 3d lenticular, one view. This one has gone through a few iterations. Lowe found those copper sheets and she used plaster, paint and cut outs for the maquette.
EGO , 3d lenticular, one view. Plaster sculptures like this were created for artwork in this series.
You're Too Far Away, 3d lenticular, AP 1. Here are 2 layers of 18 layers used to make the lenticular. To see the depth, cross the panels with your eyes.
Helen Keller, 3-D lenticular, one view
Handles, one view, 3-D lenticular
Stuff & Circumstance, one view, 3-D lenticular
I Can't Reach You, one view, 3-D lenticular
Wall Nests
Heather Lowe’s Wall Nests
by Mat Gleason
There are forty birds for every human being. Not all those people have a home but do all those birds? There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Birds have nests, bees have hives but hornets have nests as well. You don’t want to know how many hornets there are for every person on Earth. Heather Lowe doesn’t either. She mounts nests on flat walls. Amidst their rococo flair, their rugged composition hosts words formed among the tangle; since we are merely outnumbered humans, we need words. They aid our peculiar travel. We need art for everything else.
Hanging as art, these homes have art within. The decor is tiny lenticulars. They are tastefully shaped, artfully mounted, imagery abstracted like a microscopic plastic transfiguring Diebenkornesque mirage. Will a nest protect a sparrow from a hawk like a locked door protected some of us from intruders when we were young? Better those beautiful lenticulars be there to distract the hawk, to enchant the burglar.
Aesthetics mock the need for security without really interfering. Those lenticulars just reflect the fact that perspective is everything. A nest can be home and a home can be a prison or protection, solace or sentence. Heather Lowe’s sculptures here are physical poems mounted on walls instead of hiding among a trillion trees. Maybe security is an illusion and maybe lenticulars tell lies but while everybody wants their art on the gallery walls, nobody wants a vulnerable nest the next time the hawks in their imagination take flight.
Movement and energy are at the heart of Lowe's artwork. This series began from her love for figure drawing. These are studies of human movement, that in-between relationship of movement, shape and color. The lenticulars are labor-intensive and include many drawings, sometimes eighteen, to arrive at the final lenticular animation. A catalogue of some of her early works in this ongoing series is here
Rotations
