[4] Over the years, her assemblage work transitioned from impressionistic to introspective, mirroring her admiration for Frida Kahlo in the 1970s to 1980s.
In 2007, on advice from Pat House, executive director of the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, Lowry began looking for a way to share and preserve her 126-volume collection of journals.
In 2007, the journals were made part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
Inside the journals, she recorded phone numbers, studies, plans, and diagrams, tucking in loose papers, letters, photographs, and objects.
[6] She included topics in her journals such as travel, thoughts, lists, dreams, finances, critiques, correspondence, timelines, and relationship with her mother.
[3] Lowry was named the Orange Count region's best visual artist of 2007 by the OC Weekly for her assemblage creations.