Jean Lowe

Many of Lowe's installations have quoted 18th and 19th century French decoration, rife with romanticized images of animals and nature and imbued with a sense of class and privilege.

Into this fabric she substitutes or integrate corresponding contemporary attitudes—both about our treatment of the land and its other inhabitants and our attitudes regarding decoration: the wrestling match between high and low art.

Jean Lowe, Accomplishments of Man, The California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, 1995.

blended foregrounds depicting imagery from consumer culture with baroque decor backgrounds of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

In a review of her 2014 exhibition at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times wrote that she "stabs satirically at broad-scale practices of deception, as well as personal patterns of self-deception.