'That just shattered things for me.' Rick Lowe on the moment he realized his art had to escape the studio to have real-world impact:
. © Rick Lowe Studio. Photo: Thomas Dubrock. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
The first first class I took was a drawing class. After that, my next studio class was three-dimensional design and that was interesting. There were only a handful of students around the art department and I became one of those people that was just around. The head painting teacher suggested I take a class with him and I did. My early painting was mostly landscape painting.
One day, I was on a tour with a group of activists that were petitioning the city not to tear down buildings all over the neighborhood. On the tour, we passed a block and a half of 22 little shotgun houses. I was intuitively connected with those houses. I was captivated by them. I kept driving by them and I started thinking about John Biggers.
Installation view, “Rick Lowe: Meditations on Social Sculpture” 2022. © Rick Lowe Studio. Photo: Tom Powell Imaging. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian. That’s a very good question and I think that’s why critique is important, right? What is the relationship between the practical aspects of making art and this whole idea of art creating solutions to problems such as housing shortages. I think that was part of Joseph Beuys’s idea of social sculpture. There was a sense that religion had failed us as a way of organizing society to reach its highest self, and politics had also failed.
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