AIA Los Angeles is proud to announce 'lenticulars' an exhibit by Heather Lowe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Carlo Caccavale, Hon. AIA|LA
AIA Los Angeles
Tel: 213-639-0777 x21
Email:
www.aialosangeles.org

AIA Los Angeles is proud to announce

lenticulars

an exhibit by Heather Lowe

On display until October 28
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Friday

@ the AIA Los Angeles Office
3780 Wilshire Boulevard, Ste. 800
Los Angeles, CA

lenticulars

What is the relationship between objects in a landscape? How does an artist describe the space that lies between two planes? Cézanne explored this relationship and since then the pictorial plane has been condensed, flattened, projected in real time and all but rendered invisible. Heather Lowe works with lenticulars: a medium that consists of a digital image laminated to a ribbed lens. On seeing the image through the lens, viewers perceive a combination of planes at once so that the final picture literally recedes and projects from the surface. Not only is there a sensation of three-dimensional reality but there is also an interaction of color, texture and form in space.

In these particular lenticulars Lowe is interested in analyzing the intimate relationship of color forms as they exist in various landscapes. Working from Lowe's own sketches and photographs of architecture in Los Angeles, she combines and selects forms, placing them in planes of varying depth. The layered images are then interlaced and printed. The print is then laminated to the back of the lens. When the print is viewed through the lens, a 3-D illusion is created. Lowe is interested in developing both an understanding of how form exists in nature and how we may perceive form in an imagined landscape.

Heather Lowe

Heather Lowe's work is grounded in visual perception, her earliest studies were of Goethe, Josef Albers, Yaacov Agam, Julian Stanczak, Jesus Rafael Soto, and Bridget Riley. She began painting through observation of these principles of perception and continued to do so for the following ten years. Her academic studies at Santa Monica City College and U.C. Santa Cruz included drawing, printmaking, and studies in physics and light. This led her to work in stereography and stereo painting, but because stereo viewers were necessary for the three-dimensional effect, she turned to the lenticular technique. For the last six years she has worked with lenses to make articulated color forms and three-dimensional images. In this exhibit she presents pieces that relate to architectural form and pieces that are directly inspired from photographs of buildings in Los Angeles.

Lowe was born in Santa Monica, grew up in Malibu and lives in Los Angeles, where she has been devoted to work in visual illusion for over twenty years, investigating new forms that illuminate a deeper understanding of perception. Her work has been exhibited widely, from Ruth Bachofner Gallery to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and New York, Japan, and Spain. Her lenticulars were recently seen at the Lummis House in a show called Bringing the Past to Light. Another in Pershing Square, Art Squared, featured her work this summer.

website: www.heatherjlowe.com

Interview from 2005 published in the Oregon Review

Article written by Ray Zone

Image above: Over the Rainbow

Last Updated: September 2, 2010