Trying to get a sense of scale: a publication of North Park University in conjunction with the exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Abstract

"This book was published by North Park University in conjunction with an exhibition by the same title at the Visual Arts Center of the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Both the exhibition and the book are retrospective in nature, presenting art by Tim Lowly from the last 27 years, focusing on work related to a single subject: Tim's daughter Temma. As a newborn infant, Temma had a cardiac arrest, and the ensuing brain damage rendered her life as one on the margins of "normal" human existence. To some, such a life might appear limited in significance, but this body of work by Tim Lowly suggests otherwise. This art is multifarious in conceptual intent, and is in conversation with multiple traditions of art while engaging ideas as diverse as painting, identity, beauty, power, being, attentiveness, sight, blindness, time, presence, absence, touch, representation, spirituality, collaboration, and community. In that spirit, the book occasioned a gathering of heterogeneous approaches to writing about art"--amazon.com.

Contents

Foreword / David Parkyn -- Acknowledgments / David Merhib -- Entries / Sherrie Lowly -- Pillar / Karen Halvorsen Schreck -- Unpacking the painting / Karen Halvorsen Schreck -- Facing love / Henry Luttikhuizen -- Beauty in exile / Riva Lehrer -- Temma and paint / Kelly VanderBrug -- Painting close to time : a conversation / Kevin Hamilton with Tim Lowly.