{"id":1244,"date":"2021-09-22T08:42:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:42:40","slug":"gagosian-now-represents-rick-lowe-whose-art-has-its-roots-in-local-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/gagosian-now-represents-rick-lowe-whose-art-has-its-roots-in-local-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagosian Now Represents Rick Lowe, Whose Art Has Its Roots in Local Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Lowe<\/a>, whose work makes local communities a top priority, will now be represented by\u00a0Gagosian<\/a>\u00a0gallery. The artist will have his first solo exhibition with the gallery in September 2022 in New York, and his work will also be featured in its booth at Art Basel in Switzerland this week. Additionally, a new work by Lowe will be showcased on September 29 as part of the Gagosian\u2019s ongoing online \u201cArtist Spotlight\u201d series.<\/p>\n

Lowe\u2019s representation by Gagosian came on the heels of his inclusion in this summer\u2019s acclaimed \u201cSocial Works<\/a>\u201d exhibition, the first show organized by Antwaun Sargent, who was named a director at the gallery earlier this year. Lowe\u2019s work will also appear in the show\u2019s sequel, which opens next month at Gagosian\u2019s Grosvenor Hill space in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial Works\u201d highlighted the work of artists with community-based practices. Lowe<\/a>\u2019s art has often been classified as social practice, which refers to work couched in the long-term engagement with a specific group of people. In an interview, Sargent said that Lowe \u201chas had a real, profound impact\u201d on how social practice art has come to be defined.<\/p>\n

In 1993, with a collective of Houston-based artists, Lowe founded Project Row Houses, which involved purchasing a group of shotgun houses in the Texas city\u2019s Third Ward, a historically Black neighborhood. For nearly three decades, Project Row Houses has brought acclaimed artists\u2014from Charles Gaines<\/a> to Coco Fusco\u2014to the city to work with community members, in the process transforming the inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood. Project Row Houses also performs less explicitly art-related functions, like providing housing for young mothers.<\/p>\n

Lowe began thinking about what would eventually become Project Row Houses around 1990, when a group of high school students visited his studio. After seeing the kind of politically inflected paintings Lowe was making, one of the students told him that paintings like this weren\u2019t actually helping the community. The student asked, \u201cIf you\u2019re an artist and you\u2019re creative, why can\u2019t you create a solution?\u201d Lowe recently recalled. \u201cThat turned my life upside down.\u201d With Joseph Beuys\u2019s idea of social sculpture in mind, Lowe began to consider how he could change the community of which he has long been a part.<\/p>\n

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Rick Lowe.<\/span>PHOTO: BRENT REANEY\/COURTESY RICK LOWE STUDIO AND GAGOSIAN<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Lowe\u2019s practice has extended beyond Houston, however. Past initiatives have included Transforma Projects (2005\u201310) in New Orleans, which was created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; and the ongoing Victoria Square Project\u00a0<\/em>(2016\u2013), a collaboration with artist Maria Papadimitriou that debuted at Documenta 14 in 2017 and involves the creation of a community center in Athens. Along the way, Lowe has racked up major awards, among them a MacArthur \u201cgenius\u201d fellowship in 2014.<\/p>\n

In early 2018, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission reached out to Lowe to discuss an art project marking the 100th anniversary of a massacre that rocked the city\u2019s Black community, led to the burning of 35 blocks and 300 deaths, and forever changed Black Wall Street<\/a>, the commercial center of the Greenwood neighborhood. Rather than a monument to those who were killed, Lowe, working in collaboration with artist William Cordova, convened a team that would seek out recollections from Tulsa residents whose families had direct connections to the massacre. \u201cAnybody who has a story they want to tell, we wanted to hear what their story was and see if there was a way that we could help them tell that story,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

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Rick Lowe,\u00a0Black Wall Street Journey #2<\/em>, 2020.<\/span>\u00a9RICK LOWE STUDIO\/PHOTO: THOMAS DUBROCK\/COURTESY RICK LOWE STUDIO AND GAGOSIAN<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

When Lowe first visited Tulsa he noticed that one building in Greenwood had on its exterior a construction date of 1922, the year after the massacre. That people had returned to rebuild struck a chord with him. \u201cYou never hear about the courage, the will, the spirit, the strength, the resilience of the people of that community who went back and rebuilt right away,\u201d Lowe said. \u201cThe resilience and survival spirit of Black people since they arrived here has been a long journey. It\u2019s been a journey of battle after battle, but we\u2019ve never stopped, and there are many heroic moments in situations there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet Lowe wants the world to see this initiative, known as the Greenwood Art Project, so that the \u201chyper-local becomes national and international as the framework for these conversations to happen,\u201d as the artist put it. As a start, he has on view at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago a show of research-oriented work related to the Greenwood Art Project. The exhibition \u201cspeaks to the positive side or the hopeful side about the Black economy,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

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Rick Lowe\u2019s\u00a0Untitled<\/em>\u00a0(2020), which was recently acquired by the Menil Collection in Houston.<\/span>\u00a9RICK LOWE STUDIO\/PHOTO: THOMAS DUBROCK\/COURTESY RICK LOWE STUDIO AND GAGOSIAN\/THE MENIL COLLECTION, HOUSTON<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Lowe\u2019s work in Tulsa also led him to return to painting. He first took up painting while in college, only to abandon it in favor of collaborative work that he felt would more directly impact communities. His new abstract paintings are layered compositions that use games of dominoes as starting points and layer in his other work from the past 30 years as a way of creating a visual archive. These paintings, he said, \u201cpulled me away from work that looks for answers to issues.\u201d He called this new body of work \u201ca quest for understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Sargent, Gagosian is likewise seeking to question its role in the larger world. \u201cThe job of the 21st-century art gallery is to ensure that they can be part of\u2014and help support and extend\u2014conversations that exist out of their very walls,\u201d he said. \u201cRick is one of those artists who has for a long time\u2014more than 30 years\u2014been trying to suggest we move in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rick Lowe, whose work makes local communities a top priority, will now be represented by\u00a0Gagosian\u00a0gallery. The artist will have his first solo exhibition with the gallery in September 2022 in New York, and his work will also be featured in its booth at Art Basel in Switzerland this week. 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