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wellsAurora, New York— The Wells College Visual Arts Department is proud to announce the second exhibition for the 2010–11 academic year, “Direct Metal Sculpture” by Ithaca artist J. Michael Lowe. The work will be on display in the String Room Gallery (SRG) from October 20 through December 8. The exhibit is free and the public is cordially invited to view the show. An opening reception, to be held on Wednesday, October 20, from 6 – 8 p.m., offers an opportunity to meet the artist; light refreshments will be served.

The exhibition features metal sculptures that the artist has worked by hand through bending, repoussé and other shaping techniques. Lowe skillfully uses copper, steel and other metals to create a broad range of expressions—from embossed planes to complex drawings. The SRG’s Director, William Ganis, notes, “Lowe’s work holds to the tenets of modernism, especially his truth to materials and his finding new spatial solutions for timeless and distinctively sculptural problems.”

J. Michael Lowe was born in 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended high school. He earned his BFA degree at Ohio University in 1964 and his MFA in Sculpture from Cornell University in 1966. In 1966 he joined the faculty of St. Lawrence University as an instructor, and he retired holding the G.L. Flint Professorship in Fine Arts. He now resides and works in Ithaca, New York.

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