415-664-5670
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77 Belgrave Ave, San Francisco, CA
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Leslie Lowinger was born in New Orleans grew up in Detroit. She lived in New York for 15 years and San Francisco for the last twelve. Her work has been shown various places including: Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, Foundation 3.14 in Norway and Fashion Moda, New York. She has received a N Y S C A Independent Artist's Grant and is the collection of the DIA Foundation. She is a member of Graphic Arts Workshop a printmaking cooperative in San Francisco and is currently on the board of directors of ArtSpan which organizes a city wide open studio.
Leslie's Statement Regarding her work:
My etchings often examine cities and people in cities. These are generally places I have lived including New York, Germany and San Francisco. I have been influenced by Ruysdael, Jaques Callot, other artists of the 18th Century, and Japanese prints among other things. To collect information for my prints I make drawings on the street and in public places such as hotels.
Education
Camberwell School of Art London, England 1973-1976 B.A. hons
Hochshule fur bildende Kunste, Hamburg, Germany 1991- 1993 Guest Studentship
Awards
1989 New York State Council on the Arts Independent Artists Grant
One Person Exhibitions
2006 Patterns as Places Worthington Gallery West (Charcoal Drawings)
2005 The City that Does Not Reveal It’s Secrets La Casa Del Libro San Francisco
2000 Long Skinny Views of the City 3.14 Foundation, Bergen, Norway (Video Entrance)
2000 Recent Work Dolby Chadwick Gallery San Francisco
1993 Graveyards and Other places Brownson Art Gallery, Manhattanville College NY
1993 Hochshule fur bildende Kunste, Hamburg, Germany
1989 Nord Norsk Kunstnersentrum, Svolvaer, Norway
1986 Fashion Moda, Bronx New York
1982 Bronx Museum Satellite Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Eight by Eight Market St. Gallery
2004 Freedom of Impression SF City Hall
2002 Meridian Gallery Proofs of Life
2002 Mission Cultural Center A Dialogue on Paper
2001 International Print Center New York New Prints 2001 Summer
1998 Southern Exposure: Nothing But Time
1998 Pacific Prints
1996 Pacific Prints
1996 Twenty Years The Henry St. Settlement
1990 Women's Paper Work Bronx River Gallery
1988 Tends and Friends in the South, South Bronx P.S.39 Longwood Art Center
1988 Oversized: Contemporary Large Scale Prints Hostos, Bronx Museum Satellite Gallery
1987 Share the Memories The Detroit Art Institute
1985 Geometric and Architectural Paintings M- 13 Gallery New York
1985 Democracy in America P.S.39 Longwood Art Center, New York
1985 New Talent / New York East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art
1985 Surfacing Images Hostos, Bronx Museum Satellite Gallery
1984 Buchan, Geotz, Lowinger
1984 Small Walls Gallery New York
1979 "Pocket Art" Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York
Reviews and Publications
Art Week, September 2006 Issue-Tim Clare and Leslie Lowinger at Worthington Gallery West, by Frank Cebulski (excerpt)
San Francisco Center, an etching based on drawings she made at she made at the San Francisco Shopping Center of people moving up and down on escalators there, evokes the distinct rhythmic movements of a spiral with the figures floating in and out of the picture plane. A work I especially enjoy is Long Island, a charcoal drawing of a winter street scene that is full of emotion and familiarity, with dirty snow piled high along the sidewalk. The city skyline in the background is equally haunting with wintry dark and dirty light. The drawing vibrates with gestural strokes and the graphic sweep of lines and smears.”
Art Week, 2000 - Leslie Lowinger at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, by Debra Koppman (excerpt)
“As you walk into the exhibition, you are immediately thrust into a kind of syncopated rhythm which seems to carry the upbeat of city life at its best... The mystery series includes three etchings on white silk which hang on individual floor stands, (designed by Ben Frombgen.) in front of white-curtained windows and waft in the breeze. The not-quite-black images appear almost translucent, are just distinct enough to notice, and appear as mysterious and enigmatic characters in some kind of shadow play."
Bergens Tidende, May 26th 2000 Issue Ghosts in a Bank Vault
Ambit, Issue 130 1991 Leslie Lowinger in a German Cemetery
New York Times, January 14th 1990 Issues, by Vivien Raynor
Lofotposten, Svolver, Norway 1988, by Toril S. Alfsva
New York Times, Long Island Edition, 1985 by Helen A. Harrison
Collections
Stanford Library Special Collections
Adobe Systems
Saks Fifth Ave.
The DIA Foundation