Shelley Lowell
Born
1946 The Bronx, New York
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 6/1967
Advertising Design & Visual Communications, Dean’s List
Selected Museum Exhibitions
1999 Small Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC,
1980 Artists in Georgia 1980, The High Museum of Art, Peter
Morin, Curator, Atlanta, GA
1975 The Year of the Woman, The Bronx Museum of the Arts,
Judith Van Baron, Director, Bronx, NY
1974 International Museum of Erotic Art, San Francisco, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Margaret W and Joseph L. Fisher Art Gallery, Schlesinger Center,
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA
2007 Southeast Community Development Corporation, Baltimore, MD
2005 Montage Gallery of Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
2003 Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
Two Person Exhibitions
2004 Slayton House Gallery, Wilde Lake Village, Columbia, MD
Group Exhibitions
2009 Bike Project Exhibition, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
(invitational)
2006 Making an Entrance, Columbia Festival for the Arts, Columbia, MD
2005, 2004 Montage Gallery of Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
2000 The Artist & The Process, Howard County Center for the
Arts, Ellicott City, MD, (invitational)
2000 International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
1999 Music of Art, The Piano Company, Leesburg, VA, curator:
Art Promotions, Inc.
1996 - May 1998 Pink Neck Gallery, Asheville, NC, continuous
group shows
1993 The Sacred Prostitute, New York Open Center, 83 Spring Street,
NYC, curated
1981 Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Artists in Georgia
Exhibition, Savannah GA
1981 Atlanta Women In The Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1976 Erotics, Group Shows NYC
1973 Witticisms By Women, The Erotic Art Gallery, 114 West
29th Street, NYC
Juried Exhibitions
2010 Summer, Group Show, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT,
Juror: Alexandra Monroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
2010 Botanical Dreams & Nightmares, Group Show, Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT,
Juror: Cynthia Roznoy, Ph.D., Curator of Exhibitions,
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2006 Not to Scale, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center,
Alexandria, VA, David C. Levy, Juror
2003 Art HoCo Biennial, Howard County Center for the Arts,
Ellicott City, MD
2003 Dog Days Of Summer (and Cats Too!), Zenith Gallery,
Washington DC
2003 Healing Power of Art, Manhattan Arts International,
online exhibition
2002 New Symbols, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2000 2000 Views, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott
City, MD, small works
1999 Bell Atlantic Art Gallery, Northern Virginia Community
College, Annandale, VA
1998 From The Gut, Urthona Gallery, Asheville, NC
1992, 1987 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, National Arts
Club, NYC
1991 Decatur Arts Alliance Annual Exhibition, Dorothy McRae,
Director, ArtSpace, Atlanta, GA
1985 The Augusta Art Association Regional Exhibition, Augusta, GA
1974 Audabon Artists, Inc, National Exhibition, National
Academy Galleries, NYC
1966 Drawings, Society of Illustrators, NYC
Fine Art Awards, Reviews & Publications
2005 Baltimore Sun, “Examination of Soul,” Glenn McNatt, Art
Critic, April 26,2005
2004 Columbia Flier, “Duo takes dual view of nature,” Mike
Giuliano, May 6, 2004
2003 Honorable Mention, “Dog Days Of Summer (And Cats Too!)”
2003 The Columbia Flyer, “At Center, A Scream For Metaphor,”
Mike Giuliano, March 13, 2003
1998 Asheville Citizen-Times, “Women Artists Explore Emotions
in Gutsy Exhibit,” Catherine Agrella, January 25, 1998
1998 Mountain Xpress, “Women’s Art, Women's Wisdom,” Maria
Fire, January 14, 1998
1996 Asheville Citizen-Times, “Pink Neck Gallery Makes Art
Novices Feel Welcome,” Heather Rayburn, December 20, 1996
1996 Asheville Citizen-Times, “Pink Neck Artists Add To
Flowering Artistic Community,” Frank Thomson, May 19, 1996
1991 Atlanta Woman, Movers & Shakers - Shelley Lowell, Winter
Special 1991
1989 Business Atlanta, “Forget Yellow Ties, Try The Power
Bra,” Julie B. Hairston
1987 Grand Prize - $25,000, Diet Dr. Pepper National Art
Competition
1985 Merit Award, Regional Exhibition, Juried Show, Augusta
Art Association, Augusta GA
1983 Outstanding Young Women of America, biographical listing
1980 The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, “Atlanta Women In
Arts Opens With Feminist Show,” W. C. Burnett, Dec. 7, 1980
1976 Penthouse, “Erotic Edibles: How Food Can Be Lewd,”
Meridee Merzer
1975 Women Artists In America II, Book, J. L. Collins,
biographical listing, painting
1975 The Whole Sex Catalogue, Contemporary Artists, Berhardt
J. Hurwood
1975 Feminist Art Journal, “The Year of the Woman,” Susan
Manso, Vol. 4 No. 1
1974 Changes, “The New Sexual Art of Women,” Marse Holder,
Issue No. 86. (Article first appeared in feminist journal, Off
Our Backs)
Selected Corporate Collections
Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville, Douglasville, GA
The Dr. Pepper Company, Dallas, TX
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC
Selected Private Collections (names supplied by request)
New York, NY, Atlanta, GA, Brooklyn, NY, Chicago, IL, Madison
Heights, MI, Roswell, GA, Arlington, VA, San Francisco, CA.
Asheville, NC, Memphis, TN, Alexandria, VA, New York, NY
Selected Commissions (names supplied by request)
Mount Vernon, VA, Fletcher, NC, Weaverville, NC, McDonough,
GA, Fairfax, VA, Bethesda, MD, Pasadena, MD, Baltimore, MD,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Columbia, MD, New York, NY