Still Waiting (for the Rapture):  acrylics / globe with LED light/ mixed media,  15″x13″x12″, 2011

Still Waiting (for the Rapture): globe interior

Rapture: interior globe floor

Still Waiting (for the Rapture): globe back

  Limited Access:  acrylics /half globe/ copper leaf/ mixed media, 12″x12″x9″,  2011

Limted Access, detail

Limted Access

Alone Time

 Alone Time:  acrylics / half globe/ copper leaf/ mixed media, 17″x13″x11″,  2011

Alone Time, detail

Alone Time

Calypso: front

  Calypso: acryl/ globe/ silver leaf/ mixed media,  16″x14″x12″, 2011

Calypso: back, detail

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Here’s a series of mixed media globes I’ve been working on all year.  Hope you enjoy!

Kabuki detail

Kabuki

High Plains Drifter detail: this is a detail of a painting I translated to the next globe design.

Drifter

Drifter

Ceci N'est pas un Globe

Ceci N’est pas un Globe

Ceci N’est pas un Globe: detail

Fire and Ice detail

Fire and Ice

Current Event 2 detail

Current Event 2

Copper Colorfield 2 detail

Copper Colorfield 2

Calypso

Calypso detail

Venus Ascending: for the Breast health birdhouse auction 2010

To show how  reflections change on the metal leaf elements with differing angles of lighting I created this image;

a series of layers showing how the painting “turns off and on” with different light angles.

High Plains Drifter

“Summer” acrylic with silver and copper leaf on masonite.
(sealed with an oil varnish) 20″ x 16″  2010  © M. Lownie

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Michael Lownie, paintings and mixed media

Trinity, 2011

Catching Rays

“Big Boy Toys” : a one man show by Michael Lownie at Magnet, San Francisco, CA, December 2009

Opening reception December 4, 2009.   8:00-10:00pm.
MAGNET: 4122 18th Street, San Francisco, CA  94114

Hours: Tue 11 – 6pm, Wed 2 – 9pm
Thu 2 – 9pm, Fri 2 – 9pm, Sat 11 – 6pm

Presenting a series of new work (experiments with mixed media) focusing a new twist inspired by “action figure” dolls.
I took this year to develop a series very different from my traditionally abstract paintings.

Catching Rays- detail

Stardust Emergence

Stardust Emergence- side view

Colossus

Coming Out

Galactic Warrior

Looking Through You, mounted on glass w/ angled mirror backing

Looking Through You 2, resin mounted on glass, black backing

Techno Guy

Land's End

Land's End- side view

"I Was Gone"

"I Was Gone" Dreamscape (3D artist trading card)

(^vivid dream premonition of after-life consciousness)

Lighter Than Air

Fortune Teller- closed

Fortune Teller, open

Heavy Love

Icon 1, Saintly

Icon; Aladinsane

Summerman

Screened In

2011; Doing the City Wide Open Studios again-

This was the 2007 Open Studio:
Here’s a series of pics of the exhibition and space; enjoy!

I received wonderful feedback from those who came & a very enthusiastic reception to the work…thank you all.

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^^ Bodega Bay Blues; Homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”.

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^^ Goddess of Wind

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^^ Goddess of Fire & Earth-

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It was a lot of work…special thanks to my partner John Carr whose ideas and patience really made it all come together through our collaboration.The show will be up for 2 weeks, shown by appointment for those who could not make the Open Studio. This is your chance to see the works hung and well lit…appointments for viewing works are always still available in the studio although it won’t be quite as elegant! Thanks all!

Michael

10-17-2007

It’s great to be busy preparing for a two day Open Studio…works are still wet but here’s 2.

Lots of blue skies…20″ x 60″.

First, something Untitled, from the shadows-

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and another, contemplative Moon/ Rock play…perhaps thinking of Magritte-

“MY FAULT”

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… latest Favorite Painting!

DREAM OF FLIGHT 32″ x 16″, acrylic, copper & silver leaf, 2007

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Here’s a colorfield work just completed, it was inspired by my last commission “Midnight Truffle”…thanks for helping me to evolve the concept to this fruition Jane!

Copper leaf, acrylic, canvas. Two 60″x 20″ panels.

—What can become of this…all the little things I can’t help collecting. Scraps of society blend into collaged scenarios…there should be more coming soon!

Free Love, 2002: mixed media w/ mirrors

Here are some sketches, quickly thrown together to refine into more works- it’s studio food for thought.

Timmy Come Home!

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The Looking Glass

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Inheritance

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Lost and Found, 2007

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The Golden Goose, 2007

2011 entry for the 7th Annual Artist & Celebrity Birdhouse Auction:

October 15, 2011,   5-8pm
North Main Gallery
4 N. Main St,  Southampton,  NY   tickets and info: (631) 726 8715
Honorary Chairs:  Renee Zellweger, Betsey Johnson & Karyn Mannix

Title:  “Eggsistentialism”
Mixed media with globe parts, 15″ x 13″ x 12″,  2011

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.Hearts in SF; project to raise funds for general hospital’s fund-
http://www.sfghf.net/heartsDescription.php

and here’s a gorgeous shot of the installed Heart (Stockton & Geary St.) by David Yu:

Sunrise on "Always Hope" by photographer David Yu

The Heart will be on the corner of Union Square (Geary @ Stockton st) through September 2009.  Then it will go to it’s sponsor Intel’s world headquarters lobby in Santa Clara CA.

Annual Art Birdhouse Auction
It has been my pleasure to be involved with the South Fork Breast Health Coalition’s Annual Art Birdhouse Auction, founder; Karyn Mannix of East Hampton, NY.

2009  5th Annual Birdhouse Auction:

The Hummingbirdman of Alcatraz 2009

...and figure close-up

2008:

Bodega Bay Blues

bodega bay blues 2007, close-up

"Nude Descending a Birdhouse"; an homage to Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking "Nude". 2007

(Can you tell how much fun I’m having with these?!)

Here is “Titmouse Guggenhouse”, 2005…a mixed media “birdhouse” influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s NY Guggenheim Museum.
(purchased by René Zellwegger.)

And here: “Hurdy Gurdy Birdy Hut”, 2006, a mixed media “birdhouse” influenced by the architecture of Frank Gehry…with the addition of a “hall of mirrors” upstairs!
(Purchased by Laura Christophersen)

Venus Ascending birdhouse for 2010

Another wonderful project was the San Francisco Library’s “Reversing Vandalism” Exhibition of books that were vandalized by some nut, mostly attacking the Gay & Women’s Issues departments. The guy was finally caught, though, he had ruined hundreds of books.

This was my effort to give this particular book new Life:

“Mixed Messages”, 2004

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The Sweetest thing…

I had sent out “paint by number” Holiday cards last year and what a wonderful surprise to get this emailed back to me, painted in by Rhonda!

“Winter Wonderland”,

Thanks to Rhonda, Darrell & Astrud (& now MARGOT, 2008!), my friends in Marion OH.

"Current Event": acrylic, canvas, silver leaf, 30x24", 2010

"Current Event": detail

"Self Portrait"

"Self Portrait: Exposed"

The Details:

(These full paintings can be seen on my web site: http://www.mlownie.com/)
From “Electric Sky”, 2006

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From “Epicenter”

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“Afterglow”

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“Silver Solstice”

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“Always Hope” (detail), 2007 “Siempre Hay Esperanza” (Thank you Darrell.)

Creativity Explored
We are a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art. (one of my volunteer jobs.)

http://artisttradingcards.wordpress.com/
A wonderful group of artists who met on the web…this has been fun, exchanging art cards & taking turns coming up with themes. Check it out!

http://southforkbreastbirdhouseauction.wordpress.com
And, of course, the wonderful Art Birdhouse Auctions benefiting the South Fork Breast Health Coalition !

Here’s a project of interest; an  artists’ group collaborative book.
http://3023interactivebook.wordpress.com/