Rick Lowe

From the Visions2030 Imaginator Start-Up initiative in 2021, Houston-based artist and community organizer Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses, shared how art can transform communities. Located in the city’s Historic Third Ward, Project Row Houses spans five city blocks and 39 restored structures, bringing together artists, neighbors, and local initiatives to create sustainable opportunities and cultural exchange. Spaces like this embody the spirit of imagination in action. Project Row Houses reminds us that when art and community come together, new futures begin to take shape.

What happens when art is built to last, not just to be seen? Rick Lowe’s work starts with people and place. From Project Row Houses in Houston to his ongoing work with U-M students and researchers, Lowe has spent decades thinking about how art can live inside communities, not apart from them. Join us at the Michigan Theater for a conversation about time, care, and what it means to make art that stays. 📍 Michigan Theater 🗓 Thursday, February 5 🕠 5:30 PM 🎟️ Free and open to the public Series partners: @detroitpbs @allartstv @pbsbooks In partnership with: @ummamuseum and ISR at UM Media partner: @michiganpublic This project was made possible by a grant from @michiganarts . #PennyStampsSpeakerSeries #ummamuseum #ricklowe #ProjectRowHouses # #AnnArborArts #UniversityofMichigan #michigantheater

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✨ An Interview in Depth ✨ Rick Lowe: Social Sculpture and the Space Between Us 🎨 @rickloweofficial ✍️ By Carol Real Ph: Nate Palmer Courtesy @gagosian Editor: @kristen.e.evangelista For over three decades, Rick Lowe has reshaped what it means to be an artist, weaving art into the lives, struggles, and dreams of communities. From founding Project Row Houses in Houston to creating abstract paintings that carry the traces of memory, geography, and displacement, his work dissolves the lines between artist and citizen, object and action, representation and repair. In this conversation, Lowe reflects on unexpected turns, the influence of Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture, and the quiet ethics of care that guide his vision. What emerges is not a formula but a way of being, porous, attentive, and unafraid to walk the long road to understanding what lies beneath our feet. 🟣 Read it here: /ricklowe . . . . . #RickLowe #ArtSummit #ContemporaryArt #ArtInterview #SocialSculpture #CommunityArt #ProjectRowHouses #PaintingToday #AbstractPainting #ArtAndCommunity #ArtPhilosophy #ArtWorld #ArtPublishing #NewInterview #ArtMagazine #HoustonArtScene #Gagosian

Excited to have Cavafy Remains featured in Art Basel Unlimited 2025. #gagosian @gagosian @sirsargent @kayellepea @erinricepatterson @ihwart @gregshannon74

Remembering Koyo Kouoh @engadinarttalks Thank you @saskja_rosset for sharing this photo. @siddharthamitter @zeitzmocaa @otobongnkanga

Hoffman Visiting Artist | Spring 2025 Rick Lowe Epperson Auditorium | Kansas City Art Institute 4415 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64111 Thursday, May 1, 7-8 pm This event is free and open to the public (RSVP in bio) The Kansas City Art Institute invites you to the 2025 Hoffman Visiting Artist Lecture with Houston, Texas-based artist Rick Lowe. With formal training in the visual arts, Lowe has worked both inside and outside of the art world over the past three decades by participating in exhibitions and developing community based art projects. In 1993, Lowe founded Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant and culturally charged neighborhood in Houston, Texas. Presenting his lecture as the 2025 Hoffman Visiting Artist, Rick Lowe will talk about his deep interest and engagement with material, place, community, and the expansive possibilities of abstraction and share highlights from an extensive body of work in painting, drawing, collage, and installation, along with numerous collaborative projects undertaken in the spirit and tradition of “social sculpture.” Rick Lowe’s extensive body of work includes painting, drawing, installation, and collaborative projects and his works have been collected and exhibited internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of Art, New York. NY; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Documenta 14, Athens, Greece; and Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy. Lowe was appointed to the National Council on the Arts by President Barack Obama in 2013, named a MacArthur Fellow in 2014, and joined the University of Houston as a tenured professor of interdisciplinary practice in 2016. Images: Untitled; Cavafy Remains, 2024, acrylic on canvas; Rick Lowe, photograph by Tom DuBrock, courtesy of Rick Lowe Studio. #kcai #hoffmanvisitngartist #ricklowe @rickloweofficial #artspace

Thank you to everyone who joined us over the weekend for an inspiring evening with @RickLoweOfficial as part of our #ICASpeaks series! Through his powerful storytelling, Lowe gave us insight into the experiences that shaped his painting and social practice. His insights into the intersection of creativity, equity, and collective memory sparked meaningful conversations that we hope will continue well beyond Saturday's conversation. To stay updated on upcoming programs like ICA Speaks, become an ICA Miami member today! Click the link in bio to reserve free tickets to see Rick Lowe's painting "Black Wall Street Journey #10" (2010)now on view at ICA Miami. ——— Photos by Melissa Vera. #ICAMiami #MiamiMuseum #MiamiArt #RickLowe #PublicTalk #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist

Join us this Saturday, April 26, at 4 PM as leading international artist Rick Lowe shares insights into his transformative artistic journey. Experience an inspiring lecture as part of the museum’s #ICASpeaks program, which highlights the practices of important artists represented in ICA Miami’s permanent collection. Rick Lowe’s (b. 1961, Alabama) extensive body of work spans painting, drawing, and installation, as well as collaborative projects undertaken in the spirit and tradition of “social sculpture.” Through such undertakings as Black Wall Street Journey (2018–), a multifaceted citywide project for which he installed an information ticker in a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, and Greenwood Art Project (2018–21), where he worked with local artists and others in Alabama to raise awareness of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Lowe has developed a flexible practice centered on nurturing relationships and catalyzing change. This event is $5 for ICA Miami members at the individual level and above. Non-members can attend for just $15. Members: You can access your discounted tickets by entering the email associated with your account. Click the link in bio to purchase your tickets today! 🎟️ ——— Rick Lowe, “Black Wall Street Journey #10,” 2021. Acrylic collage on canvas. 72 x 96 in. Gift of Ralph J. Gindi. #ICAMiami #MiamiMuseum #MiamiArt #RickLowe #PublicTalk #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist

Had an incredible time at the ASU Community Lunch with the legendary, @rickloweofficial ! Grateful for the inspiring conversation about art, impact, and community. Huge thanks to @asuartmuseum for bringing us together! 🎨 A special thanks to Tim Trumble Photography for capturing these photos. 🙌

RICK LOWE’s practice is religious: rooted in the world around him, enriching and restorative. When it comes to his paintings and community-oriented projects, art is a resource and a way forward. Read the story by ZOË HOPKINS with photography by DEUN IVORY in link in bio. www.family.style #FamilyStyle #RickLowe #Gagosian

End of the year exhibition in Gstaad, Switzerland. Thank you #gagosiangallery team @sirsargent @kayellepea @ktlevine @165bleeckerstreet @cyprien.david @chiaraferragni and my studio team @erinricepatterson @ihwart @alexandralechin @christiandavenport and Abigail Winograd for all the hard work that went into making 2024 a successful year for my practice. Looking forward to 2025!