October 25 – February 2, 2023
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
Rick Lowe: Notes on the Great Migration
Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 25, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Please join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by Rick Lowe, the acclaimed Houston-based artist who was a 2019–2021 Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium. Lowe’s “notes” on the Great Migration took shape in the wake of another Chicago-centered project begun in 2019: his Black Wall Street Journey, part of the Toward Common Cause exhibition celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program. (That exhibition, in turn, was informed by the Black Wall Street Journey research project at the Neubauer Collegium.) The centerpiece of Notes on the Great Migration will be a new mode of presenting Lowe’s paintings – in a manner fitting for the artist’s seminal contribution to the development of American “social sculpture.”
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This exhibition is presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
About the Artist
Rick Lowe (Professor of Art, University of Houston) is a Houston-based artist whose pioneering approach to “social sculptures” have inspired a generation of artists to explore more socially engaged forms of art-making in communities across the country and internationally. Lowe has initiated arts-driven redevelopment projects in Houston – the renowned Project Row Houses – and other cities, including the Watts House Project in Los Angeles and post-Katrina rebuild in New Orleans. His work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Museum and Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and more. An exhibition of recent works, Meditations on Social Sculpture, is on view at Gagosian Gallery in New York City through October 22.