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'''Jean Lowe''' is
'''Jean Lowe''' is a California-based painter and sculptor. She creates sculptural works of enamel-painted papier-mâché. Lowe is represented by Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.


==Involvement with American Music Club==
==Education and career==
Lowe earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1983. She earned her MFA from UC San Diego in 1988.
 
She was a lecturer at UC San Diego from 1992 to 2008.<ref name="SDHG">{{cite news|last1=Hiss |first1=Mark |title=2012 Stars of San Diego |url=http://sandiegohomegarden.com/2011-12-12-20-22-52/san-diego-life/37-2012-stars-of-san-diego?showall=&start=3 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20140915134807/http://sandiegohomegarden.com/2011-12-12-20-22-52/san-diego-life/37-2012-stars-of-san-diego?showall=&start=3 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=September 15, 2014 |work=San Diego Home/Garden |date=January 9, 2012 }}</ref>
 
==Works==
===Involvement with American Music Club===
Lowe provided the paintings for the covers of [[American Music Club]]'s 1991 album ''[[Everclear]]'' and for its single ''[[Rise]]'', the cover illustration for the 1993 single ''[[Keep Me Around]]'' and the cover paintings for the 1994 album ''[[San Francisco]]'' and its singles ''[[Can You Help Me]]'' and ''[[Wish The World Away]]''.
===Books===
Lowe creates sculptural representations of everyday objects using papier-mâché and enamel paint. She is known for her papier-mâché books and has created a large collection of them with evocative and amusing titles. Her work ''Books and Ideas in an Age of Anxiety'' comprises a collection of them in display cases and is situated in Byers Hall at UCSF as part of the J. Michael Bishop Art Collection at Mission Bay.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jean Lowe |url=http://chancellor.ucsf.edu/MBA/lowe.php |publisher=J. Michael Bishop Art Collection at Mission Bay |accessdate=September 15, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115100758/http://chancellor.ucsf.edu/MBA/lowe.php |archivedate=January 15, 2015 |df= }}</ref>
 
Among the book titles are:
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*''Accelerated Zen Buddhism: How to Win at the Hereafter''
*''Achieve and Maintain a More Powerful Delusion''
*''Anxiety: The Unexploited Weight Loss Tool''
*''Artistic Mammography''
*''Back to Nature: The Notes of Marie Antoinette''
*''Biblical Family Values''
*''Cachet: What It Is & How to Get It''
*''Close But Not Close Enough: The Case for Primate Experimentation''
*''Craft Your Way to Mental Health''
*''The Death of Painting''
*''The Eco-Tourist's Guide to Las Vegas''
*''Foreclosure Etiquette''
*''Freedom from Rigor & Competence''
*''Great Biceps: In 20 to Life''
*''Great Golf Courses of the World''
*''A Guide to Box Wines''
*''Help Me Make Up My Mind, Lord''
*''The High Fiber Diet''
*''A History of Genital Warts''
*''Hormones and Behavior''
*''Hot Buttered Cop Porn''
*''How to Dominate Women''
*''If God Loves Me, Why Am I Living in My Van?''
*''If God Loves Me, Why Do I Need a Vibrator?''
*''The Jesus Workout''
*''Jet-Skiing Mother Ganges''
*''The Joy of Pickling''
*''Just Ask God: Washboard Abs for Life''
*''Kindle: The Missing Manual''
*''Leadership and You''
*''Liposuction of the Jowls''
*''Militant Feminist Veganism for All''
*''Narcissism and You''
*''Nutritainment''
*''Perfect Poultry: Best Recipes from the Audubon Silver Circle Club''
*''Premature Articulation''
*''A Quotidian Guide to the Basics''
*''Rekindling your Passion for What Might Have Been''
*''Rethinking the Koran''
*''Something Awesome Is Coming Your Way''
*''String Theory''
*''Torture Preparedness''
*''Tough Love and your Elderly Parents''
*''The Triumph of Minimalism''
*''Yosemite: Observations from Behind the Wheel''
*''The Way Things Work: Build Your Own Guillotine''
*''What Would Satan Eat?''
*''When to Tell Your Husband He's Adopted''
*''Who's Who in American Pre-Schools''
*''Who's Who in American Prisons''
*''Who's Who in the Multiverse''
*''Yes, Yes, Yes!''
*''Yoga and Stress Reduction''
*''Your Soul: Fixer Upper or Teardown?''
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===Exhibitions===
Lowe has exhibited in both New York and Los Angeles. She participated in the 1994 exhibition ''Bad Girls West''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Knight|first1=Christopher|title=ART REVIEW : 'Bad Girls': Feminism on Wry : Tone Bemusedly Subversive in West Coast Edition of N.Y. Show|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-08/entertainment/ca-20290_1_bad-girls-west/2|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 8, 1994}}</ref> In 1995 she collaborated on the installation ''Bull Story'' with artist Kim MacConnel.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Art Matters...|journal=New York Magazine|date=September 18, 1995|page=99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-QCAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA99&dq=Jean%20Lowe%20artist&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>
 
Lowe's 2012 exhibition ''Hey Sexy!'' blended foregrounds depicting imagery from consumer culture with baroque decor backgrounds of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hey Sexy!: Jean Lowe @ Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego|url=http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/hey-sexy-jean-lowe-quint-contemporary-art-san-diego|work=Juxtapoz Magazine|date=April 23, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Morlan|first1=Kinsee|title=Jean Lowe makes us smile and question ourselves at the same time|url=http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/blog-868-jean-lowe-makes-us-smile-and-question-ourselves-at-the-same-time.html|work=San Diego CityBeat|date=April 20, 2012}}</ref> The exhibition incorporated sculptural objects such as tissue boxes, cases of beer, and a store where sculptural recreations of commodities are sold.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chute|first1=James|title=Jean Lowe celebrates and critiques consumer culture|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/11/Quint-Jean-Lowe/all/?print|work=U-T San Diego|date=May 11, 2012}}</ref>
 
Lowe's work frequently employs satire. In a review of her 2014 exhibition at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Leah Ollman of the ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote that she "stabs satirically at broad-scale practices of deception, as well as personal patterns of self-deception."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ollman|first1=Leah|title=Review: Hilarious, cutting satire from Jean Lowe at Rosamund Felsen|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/16/entertainment/la-et-cm-jean-lowe-review-20140113|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 16, 2014}}</ref>
 
Lowe's works are included in the collections of the San Diego Museum of Art, The New Children's Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.<ref name="SDHG"/>
 
==Awards and honors==
Lowe has twice received fellowships from the Western States Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts and has received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She was also awarded the CalArts Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize.<ref name="SDHG"/> She won the Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation Art Prize in 2000. She was also the recipient of the 2006/2007 San Diego Art Prize.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Ernest Silva, Lecturers Jean Lowe and Raul Guerrero Win the SD Art Prize with Emerging Artists MFA Candidates Yvonne Venegas and Iana Quesnell|url=http://visarts.ucsd.edu/events/professor-ernest-silva-lecturers-jean-lowe-and-raul-guerrero-win-sd-art-prize-emerging|publisher=UC San Diego|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>
 
==Personal life==
Lowe lives in Encinitas, California and is married to artist Kim MacConnel.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thornburg|first1=Barbara|title=Fun House: Two Artists Pack Their Sleek Home With Fanciful Furnishings and a Sense of Humor|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-25/magazine/tm-16815_1_low-cost-housing|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 25, 1995}}</ref>


==References==
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==External links==
*[http://quintgallery.com/artist/jean-lowe/ Jean Lowe] at Quint Gallery


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