Tristin Lowe

 

Tristin Lowe

Tristin Lowe was born in 1966 in Philadelphia where he is resident until today. He studied in Parson School of Design in New York from 1984 until 1986 and have a BFA in sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art. 

Tristin Lowe is considered to be a risk-taking artist, as far as materials he uses. He uses very low-teck and low-brow materials, whatever he can find and make it do what he wants to. For example, uses plastic, neon lights, wool or felt. His work mainly consists of those gigantic sculptures made of various materials previously mentioned. I noticed that even though they are tremendously huge and often supposedly frightening subject matter they have a very soft feeling. The way they are done, the rounded corners make them look like stuffed animals. On the other hand, in such a way he successfully depicting the real appears of a life animal into an 3D object.  

I was most amazed with the scale of sculptures that yet kept the childlike fell. They made me feel like I have never played with such huge toys The installation of Mocka Dick stricken me the most. It has the size and feel of an actual whale which is tremendously huge. For this piece he used industrial wool felt which successfully mimics the appearance of flesh. I assume the whale was planed out and turned into pattern pieces and then stitched together. It is a lot of hard work that at the end does have a gorgeous outcome. AMAZING!!!