Mary Catherine Lowery is a San Francisco-based artist exploring the bridge between traditional landscapes and contemporary abstraction. Her work seeks to create pieces that feel expansive yet intimate: an interpretation of the emotions that reside between what is felt and what is known. Using materials like dye and bleach, she embraces a process that mirrors the fluid nature of memory. Her practice examines how impermanence and time can be felt, how nostalgia can both emerge and erode, and how memories distort and reshape over time.

Over the years, her work has increasingly leaned into the emotional undercurrents of place, drawing on the nostalgia, longing, and dreamlike haze that certain environments evoke. Rather than depicting specific landscapes, her paintings aim to trace the feeling of them — the way a place can linger in the mind long after it’s gone, blurred by time, softened by emotion, and evolved by self-growth. She embraces the vastness of memory and the gentle pull of nostalgia.

Mary Catherine received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textile Design and Fiber Arts from the University of Georgia in 2016, a foundation that continues to influence her approach to materials and technique.