Project Row Houses: If Artists Are Creative Why Can't They Create Solutions
The artist name is Rick Lowe. This 2021 mural sized painting relates to dominoes. The Whitney page explains that here.
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Rick Lowe, who uses playing dominoes as the basis for his paintings, has talked about the symbolic qualities of the game as scenarios for community engagement. Lowe began by photographing and later tracing the patterns made by domino games, using them as a model for a form of abstraction grounded in lived experience. He finds playing dominos to be “an incredibly spiritual and educational experience. There’s a code of ethics around the way the game is played; rigorous competition, humility, and respect.”
Lowe’s early career was focused on painting until his work shifted into social practice. This work’s title frames the question that helped instigate this pivot. A teenager had asked him: if artists are creative, why can’t they create solutions? With this question in mind, he co-founded Project Row Houses in 1993, transforming condemned houses in Houston’s Third Ward into spaces for artists’ projects, educational programs, and social services. Returning to painting, Lowe has explained, provides “nourishment” and a space for reflection, complementing his activism.
It is one of those large scale works of art that you can look at for a long time.
Project Row Houses: If Artists Are Creative Why Can't They Create Solutions
The artist name is Rick Lowe. This 2021 mural sized painting relates to dominoes. The Whitney page explains that here.
Copy and Paste:
Rick Lowe, who uses playing dominoes as the basis for his paintings, has talked about the symbolic qualities of the game as scenarios for community engagement. Lowe began by photographing and later tracing the patterns made by domino games, using them as a model for a form of abstraction grounded in lived experience. He finds playing dominos to be “an incredibly spiritual and educational experience. There’s a code of ethics around the way the game is played; rigorous competition, humility, and respect.”
Lowe’s early career was focused on painting until his work shifted into social practice. This work’s title frames the question that helped instigate this pivot. A teenager had asked him: if artists are creative, why can’t they create solutions? With this question in mind, he co-founded Project Row Houses in 1993, transforming condemned houses in Houston’s Third Ward into spaces for artists’ projects, educational programs, and social services. Returning to painting, Lowe has explained, provides “nourishment” and a space for reflection, complementing his activism.
It is one of those large scale works of art that you can look at for a long time.