Tim Lowly (born 1958 in Hendersonville, North Carolina) is a Chicago artist, musician, and teacher. He is known for compassionate

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pictures of children in mysterious circumstances.Alan G. Artner, "Grabner Homes in on Subject Matter: Lanyon Exhibit Combines the Past with the Present, While Lowly Mixes Figures with Landscapes", ''

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'', Thursday, May 27, 1999, section 5, p. 2

Biography

Tim Lowly was born Tim Grubbs. From the age of three he lived in

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, where his parents were

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missionaries. He learned piano and guitar and still plays and composes folk-rock music. Lowly attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, majoring in art. He married Sherrie Rubingh in 1981, and rather than subordinate anyone's last name, they changed their surname to Lowly.Fred Camper, "Temma Lowly and the Meaning of Life", '' Chicago Reader'', Friday, November 22, 2002, Vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1, 14–20

Career

After a visit to Korea and Europe, Lowly took up the exacting

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art of

painting, in which egg yolk is mixed with pigment to make paint. Since 2000 Lowly had primarily worked with matte acrylic. The Lowlys had a daughter, Temma, in 1985, who was brain-damaged and is frequently the subject of Mr. Lowly's paintings. Lowly says, "Part of my fairly political agenda is to say that

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children are a part of life. These are not freaks. What I'm saying is that we should advocate for eyes of compassion that see human beings as human beings, rather than separating them into the beautiful, the ugly, the normal, the freak." Lowly has been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts in 1987 and Fellowships in Visual Art from the

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in 1995 and 2005. He teaches at

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in Chicago.

Collections

*The

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, Little Rock, Arkansas * Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia * Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina * Frye Museum, Seattle, Washington *The Graham Center Museum, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois * Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan *The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts,

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, Los Angeles *The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan *The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan *The McDonald's Corporate Collection, Oak Brook, Illinois *The

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, New York *The

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, Minneapolis, Minnesota *

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, Decatur, Illinois *The

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, Rockford, Illinois *The Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin

References

External links

Tim Lowly's website
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