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Keith Lowry (b. 1935) Keith Lowry received his BS in 1957 and MA in 1959, both from Fort Hayes State University. Lowry received his MFA from Wichita State University in 1970. He was an art instructor at Roosevelt Jr. High in Great Bend, Kansas from 1957-62, then became Assistant Professor of Art at Kearney State College until 1968, when he became Acting Art Department Head. Lowry's paintings mainly focus on the Midwestern landscape. He stated concerning his work, "My landscape paintings, for the most part, represent a response to the openness of the plains country around Kearney. The response to a clump of trees or a distant bluff is intensified by the emptiness encompassing it, while each part of the terrain in turn transforms the emptiness into space." Lowry has exhibited and won many awards in Omaha, Nebraska, Cooperstown, New York, Denison, Iowa, and Chico, California. Artist Statement My Landscape paintings are a response to contemplated impressions and sensations formed by experiences that time and memory has overlapped and blended. This muse becomes more important than factual appearances. This imagery and formal aspects in these paintings is determined subjectively, linked to my perception of the countryside surrounding the midwestern communities in which I have lived throughout my life. |
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