Helen Lowery at PCCA - January 15th

First Floor Gallery: Helen Lowery

January 15 – February 20, 2010

Opening Reception Friday, January 22, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

We're starting the New Year with a solo show of recent paintings by Helen Lowery. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Helen earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at Wayne State University and lived in the Detroit area from 1999 until the summer of 2009. She recently moved to Williamsburg, Virginia.

Helen is presenting a new body of work in which mothers and children are subject. Her work is inspired by the educator, philosopher, and humanitarian Maria Montessori and by the natural themes of Art Nouveau. Having recently given birth to her second child, the artist is absorbed in the relationship between parent and child and their experience of the world together. She says of her paintings, "I draw from motifs of Art Nouveau to construct environments depicting natural themes of order, repetition and pattern. This is an environment that I imagine parent and child experience together as collaborators, creating a new learning experience for both... In some pieces, the subject of the child is not directly depicted, but implied by the created environment of pattern, and meaning to symbolize the change affected on a parent by the advent of motherhood/fatherhood."

Please join us in welcoming Helen Lowery at an opening reception on Friday, January 22 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.

The mission of Paint Creek Center for the Arts is to enhance life in the region by promoting, encouraging and creating opportunities to participate in and appreciate the arts. Paint Creek Center for the Arts is open Monday through Thursday, 9:00am to 9:00pm, Friday 9:00am – 7:00pm, and Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Exhibits are free and open to the public. We are located at 407 Pine Street in downtown Rochester at the intersection of Pine and Fourth Streets. For information on exhibits, classes, the Art & Apples Festival, special events or volunteer opportunities, call 248-651-4110 or visit www.pccart.org.

PCCA exhibitions are supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.