Jennifer Lowe has combined the landscapes, animals and people of her native Montana with a unique approach to painting. Born in Missoula, Jennifer spent parts of her childhood working in the fields of her grandparents’ homestead property in Montana’s Grasshopper Valley. Lowe’s paintings are rendered in the vivid color and rich texture of livestock markers and capture the whimsical images from her imagination and the memories of her Montana upbringing.
After graduating college in 1987 with an art degree, Jennifer’s work blossomed. Lowe has been featured in 22 shows throughout the west. Her work has been shown alongside well-known western artists such as Thom Ross, Howard Post, Larry Pirnie and Donna Howell-Sickles. She has seven pieces in the corporate offices of Patagonia in Ventura, CA and several paintings in private collections of such luminaries as Pater Fonda, Michael Keaton, Jeff Bridges and Nion McEvoy of Chronicle Books.
EDUCATION
1986 Warwick University, Coventry, England: One year art history
1987 Montana State University, Bozeman, MT: Bachelor of Fine Art
CURRENT INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
May 1999 “Outlaw Women of the West”, Art and Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
June 1999 “Reinventing the West”, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
June 1999 “Plein-Air”, Chapparal Gallery, Bozeman, MT
July 1999 “Wild West”, Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, ID
July 2000 “Wild West”, Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, ID
July 2001 “Wild West”, Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, ID
August 2002 Three Person Exhibition, Kneeland Gallery, Sun Valley, ID.
GUEST ARTIST & SEMINARS
Elementary Schools throughout Southwest Montana
Patagonia, Ventura, CA
Girls’ Conference, Bozeman, Montana
ART DONATIONS
Bozeman Symphony Auction, Bozeman, MT
Big Brothers and Sisters Benefit, Bozeman, MT
Humane Society of Gallatin County Benefit, Bozeman, MT
Missoula Children’s Theatre: Featured artist for lobby, Missoula, MT
FEATURE ARTICLES
Newspapers: Missoulian, Bozeman Chronicle, Jackson Hole News, Billings Gazette
Magazines: Southwest Art, Whitefish Magazine, Montana Crossroads
BOOK COVER ART
Cast Again, Tales of a Fly Fishing Guide, Publishes by Lyons and Burford
Currently writing and illustrating a children’s book