Tristin Lowe

Tristin Lowe is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice delves into the crude and rude, the absurd and abject, pushing low-brow, low-tech methods and materials toward unexpected ends. The artist makes drawings from greasepaint 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 handcrafts exquisite reproductions of both animate and inanimate objects (a mangy, fake-fur fox; a two-story folding chair; a life-size replica of an albino sperm whale fashioned from inflated plastic and felt). Lowe's wry re-imaginings lead the viewer down a path of chaos, comedy, and failure, but can also inspire awe and amazement.

Lowe received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and studied at Parsons School of Design and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited his work extensively in Philadelphia, including at Fleisher/Ollman, Vox Populi, Girard College, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, among many others. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at Rhode Island School of Design; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia; and the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Switzerland. He has been awarded a Pew Fellowship, Provincetown Fine Art Work Center Fellowship, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum and Girard College Residencies. He was co-founder and co-director of the non-profit gallery Blohard. Lowe's work is in collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and The West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania.

Courtesy of Fleisher/Ollman Gallery