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Art League Houston (ALH) is honored to present New Paintings & Drawings, an exhibition of recent work by Artist Rick Lowe, the ALH 2020 Texas Artist of the Year. New Paintings & Drawings features artwork created over the course of the last few years, visualizing Lowe’s signature, vivid explorations of color and complex visualizations of compositional space. A catalogue focusing on the artist’s career published by Art League Houston is available in conjunction with this exhibition (design and layout by Teresa Bamford Southwell). The catalogue includes full color images and a critical essay by Alex Jen, a writer and curator currently based in Chicago, Illinois.

Born in rural Alabama, Rick Lowe is a distinguished artist whose remarkable achievements in the art world are mirrored by his championship of people and communities through social practice-based art projects, as evidenced, in particular, through Houston’s noteworthy Project Row Houses. Co-founded in 1993 by Lowe, Project Row Houses is an arts and cultural community located in Houston’s significant, historical Third Ward – one of the city’s oldest African American neighborhoods. Much of Lowe’s interest and adept skill with collaboration comes from his family upbringing, where he was surrounded by a large family of four brothers and seven sisters. This sense of familial community is closely mirrored in many of his projects that focus on building and nurturing relationships.