Caole Lowry's Profile | Gallery

Caole Lowry

Caole Lowry has shown her own work all over the country, and participated
in her first international exhibit in Italy in September 2001. She shows
regularly in the spring in "Wild Women of Progressive Art," at the
Glenwood Springs Arts Center in Colorado and in her own gallery.

Caole is
a visionary artist who sees creativity as one of the most effective ways
to build healthy communities. Ms. Lowry is owner/curator/director of
Planet Earth & the 4 Directions Gallery in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Through the gallery she actively supports the arts in Western Colorado,
and has organized more than 50 community exhibits, gaining recognition
from the Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture with their Business
in the Arts Award for 2001.

Caole graduated Magna Cum Laude, with her
Master’s of Fine Arts Degree from George Washington University in
Washington, D.C. In 1984, she won the Annual Awards Prize in Visual
Communication at the University for her thesis work, "For the Children," a
photo album on life and nuclear threat. Her written thesis, "Primal Stuff:
Word and Image," was the beginning of a synthesis of an art that combines
stories with pictures and philosophy with action.

Art is the "stuff of life," according to Ms. Lowry. She believes that too
often we have separated art and artists from the real world, substituting
concepts for reality. Intellectual pursuit is empty without heart. Art
belongs to people. In bringing back art to a grassroots accessibility,
through working in community, through her art, her gallery and through
teaching, she believes we will encounter a more authentic presence in our
creative lives.

In her own art, she is currently working with themes of
myth, religion and ecology, discovering the pure heart in our community
that binds us to each other and our land, promoting a natural way of
living. She is profoundly influenced by the beauty of the high desert
region where she lives. It is a place shaped by wind, sun and water where
the ancient rock resonates with spirit.

Caole teaches annually in the
summer at the "Winds of Change" Women's Retreat in Western Colorado and at
Spring Creek Ranch Learning Center in Mesa, Colorado. She is art columnist
for the "San Juan Silver Stage," a community chronicle of arts and &
events on the Western Colorado Plateau.

Caole in the entryway to her galleryPhoto courtesy of Brian Harris

524 Colorado Ave, home of Planet Earth and the 4 Directions GalleryPhoto courtesy of Brian Harris

Photo courtesy of Brian Harris