Benjamin Lowder
• – • Cherokee Street Gallery
About the speaker
Benjamin Lowder is a fine artist exhibiting artwork comprised of geometrically arranged reclaimed wood and vintage metal signage. Lowder is a creative consultant at the Center for Spirituality and Sustainability housed in a Buckminster Fuller designed geodesic dome on the SIUE campus. Lowder also serves on the board of the Fuller Dome Home historic site in Carbondale, Illinois which is the house that Bucky lived in while teaching at SIU.
Lowder’s current series of artwork is titled, “Myth, Math & Magic.” This series is comprised of two and three dimensional totems constructed of reclaimed lumber and vintage metal signage. The advertising tropes of the vintage signs are deconstructed and reassembled into sacred geometric patterns that break the magic spell cast by the advertising’s original letterforms. These artifacts are recast to transmute feelings of nostalgia for an unsustainable past while drawing forward ancient wisdom to support an abundant future.
In the Spring of 2018, Lowder founded an art gallery in St Louis called Cherokee Street Gallery. Cherokee Street Gallery will be hosting exhibitions that explore the intersection of nature and iconography. The gallery will curate artwork that evokes the miracle of the natural world through humanity‘s distilled symbolic language.
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St. Louis, MO - Cherokee Street Gallery, St. Louis’ most anticipated new gallery, is open at 2617 Cherokee Street with a preview of the space currently on view and an inaugural exhibition set for Friday, June 29th, 2018. Cherokee Street Gallery will be hosting exhibitions that explore the intersection of nature and iconography. “We will curate artwork that evokes the miracle of the natural world through humanity‘s distilled symbolic language,” says gallery founder and artist Benjamin Lowder.
Location
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Cherokee Street Gallery
2617 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, Missouri United States 63118
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