Judith lowry artist biography images

The Obedient Wives , Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 90 in. Maidu and Pit River artist and activist Judith Lowry has devoted much of her artistic career to visualizing the stories which were passed down to her by her family and community members as well as recording her own family history through a crisp figurative style.

Judith Lowry (born in Washington, DC) is a Native American artist.

Lowry, who is now based in Nevada City, California, frequently uses the proceeds of her paintings to fund historical and cultural preservation projects in the region. The artist has been actively working with the Nisenan people, who are traditionally based in the gold fields of California, in their effort to regain Federal recognition and uphold their cultural heritage.

Narratives such as this, Lowry notes, are not sacred stories, but rather the Creation stories and character-building fables of the Maidu people; the depiction of these tales serves the dual purpose of sharing and preserving them. The deft rendering of the movement of the three owls recalls the churning figures so often found in Botticelli's work depicting Greek gods, with their zephyr-caught draperies reimagined as sweeping feathers.

Image courtesy Judith Lowry.

California artist Judith Lowry is a Native American painter of Maidu and Pit River ancestry.

Lowery, The Obedient Wives detail. Anastasia Kinigopoulo. Works by Judith Lowry in the Horseman Collection. Return to main.