Eric Dean Gallery and Greg Huebner Gallery
2023-24 Exhibition Schedule
Eric Dean Gallery
Fine Arts Center | Wabash College | Monday - Friday 9-5pm | Saturday 2-6pm
Free and open to the public
OPENING SPRING 2024
PROTO/DRIFT
Interactive digital works by Owen Lowery
RESTORING HOPE, RESTORING TRUST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2024
January 24 – April 4, 2024
Gallery Reception with Artist: Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024
Lunchtime Artist Lecture: Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Owen Lowery (he/him) is a Pittsburgh-based interactive artist with a mission to create situations that foster and reward curiosity. He prioritizes Universal Design in his work, hoping all people—regardless of age, height, background, or accessibility situation—can engage meaningfully. He sees his art as existing within situations rather than physical artwork itself. The art comes alive in moments when curiosity takes over and deeper exploration begins. Lowery hopes people take a little of this curiosity away with them into daily life.
While in residence Lowery will transform the Eric Dean Gallery into an interactive installation space and prototyping workshop where visitors can engage with his process, their own curiosity, and aid in the development of new artworks.
ARTIST BIO
Owen has been a “Tough Artist” at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the Community Artist-in-Residence at the Currier Museum of Art, and is 2023 Maker-in-Residence at the Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville, AR. He is a Heinz Endowment Awardee, a recipient of the Burning Man Global Arts Grant, and was awarded the Consumer Involvement Award by the Cuyahoga County Mental Health Board of Cleveland, OH. His work has been featured at multiple festivals including the Currents New Media Fest in Santa Fe, True/False Film Fest in Columbia, MO, and Ingenuity Fest Cleveland. Lowery aims to create work with communities rather than for them, seeing people not as an audience, but as integral to the interactive medium itself, both as catalysts to the artwork and collaborators in its development. With this goal in mind his work is often found in less traditional art spaces such as libraries, community centers, hospitals, halfway houses, psychiatric care facilities, maker spaces, education spaces, and community-oriented programming.
Lowery will hold the position of Artist-in-Residence in the Wabash Art Department in spring 2024. He will co-teach a course that engages students in his community engaged practice and invite the Wabash and Montgomery County community to a series of public engagements.
WABASH COLLEGE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE |CAMPUS EVENTS | SPRING 2024
Artist-in-Residence Owen Lowery, Artist Talk: Wed. Jan. 24 12pm, Korb Classroom (FAC) lunch served. Find out what motivates Artist-in-Residence Owen Lowery to create interactive, inclusive digital artwork.
Exhibition Opening Reception for Proto/Drift: Wed. Jan. 24, 4-6pm Eric Dean Gallery (FAC)
Join us for refreshments, chat with Owen and be among the first to interact with his captivating works.
Proto/Drift, a show chock full of interactive digital artworks will fill our campus gallery this semester. The Proto-Room is filled with prototypes, tests, and artworks in progress, where participants can explore, touch, interact, add to artworks, and let their curiosity go wild. The Drift-Room is filled with touch-interactive projection, light, and relaxing soundscapes where visitors can spend time drifting, engaging through gentle touch or relaxing with a nap. The exhibit is on view Jan. 24 – April 4.
Thursday Night Prototype-Sessions: Every Thursday evening 7-9pm (Jan 25 – April 4), Eric Dean Gallery
Join Owen Lowery in the Eric Dean Gallery, to test artwork in progress, explore ideas, play with art, and generally be goofy. All ages welcome.
Trace/Play, Interactive Digital Performance Art: Friday, March 15, 7pm, Eric Dean Gallery
Join us for this cross-disciplinary performance by artists Owen Lowery and Chrissy Martin that combines performative movement with interactive/generative digital art. Trace/Play uses AI body tracking to capture and trace Martin’s motion, resulting in abstract music and visual art projections and prints.
To schedule field trips, please contact stradera@wabash.edu
WABASH COLLEGE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE| COMMUNITY PARTNERS EVENTS | SPRING 2024
Carnegie Museum
Access Art, Works by Owen Lowery, on view Jan. 20 – May 1
The Access Series, uses mediums of accessible communication and universal design to create curious interactive art experiences, including braille poetry, tunes from balloons, and human speech converted to text, sign language, music, and abstract art.
Opening Reception for Access Art Series: Jan. 20. 10am -1pm.
Saturday Morning, Join the Artist @ The Carnegie Museum: 10am - 1pm on Saturday, Jan 20, Feb 3, Feb 17, March 2, March 16, March 30, April 13, April 27.
Join Artist Owen Lowery and students from the Interactive Art and Inclusivity class to test artwork in progress, explore ideas, play with art, and generally be goofy. All ages welcome.
Crawfordsville District Public Library
Artist Owen Lowery has two installations on view at CDPL, Jan. 20 – May 1.
Touch Glass is a set of stained-glass artworks using lead-free solder to detect human touch. Gently explore with your hands to have an impact on the art. This is installed on the 2nd floor of the library. Change the Code allows anyone to explore creative coding through art and play. This is interactive work is installed on a monitor in the Conversation area on the 1st floor.
Saturday Mornings, Join the Artist @ CDPL: 10am – 1pm, Jan 27, Feb. 10, Feb 24, March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20.
Join Artist Owen Lowery and students from the Interactive Art and Inclusivity class to test artwork in progress, explore ideas, play with art, and generally be goofy. All ages welcome.
Artist Website: http://www.owenlowery.com/
2024 Senior ART Exhibition
April 20 – May 11, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30pm
This exhibition is a critical final rite of passage for the talented artists who have dedicated their academic focus to the visual arts.
Gregory J. Huebner Gallery
The Gregory J. Huebner Gallery is located in the Randolph H. Deer Fine Wing in the Fine Arts Center. The Huebner Gallery features a rotating exhibition of works from the Wabash permanent collection.
Questions and Inquiries can be sent to stradera@wabash.edu
Contact stradera@wabash.edu to schedule field trips.