Mary Catherine Lowery is an Atlanta-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 evoke 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.

CV:

2025

Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, May 2025 Issue

2023

Represented by Holland MacRae, August 2023 - Present

Create! Magazine, Artist Feature, October 2023 Issue

Summer Invitational, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2022

Emerging Artist in Residence, Chateau Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardenne, France

2021

Modern Luxury’s JEZEBEL Magazine Feature, ‘One To Watch,’ November 2021 Issue

In Her Studio Magazine, Artist Feature, Spring 2021 Issue

‘Labor of Love’ Exhibition, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2018

  Chattanooga WorkSpace, ‘Celebrate Artists,’ Chattanooga WorkSpace, Chattanooga, Tennessee

  Chattanooga WorkSpace, ‘Artists in the Wild,” Chattanooga WorkSpace, Chattanooga, Tennessee

2017

     Lyndon House Arts Foundaton's 42nd Annual Juried Show, Lyndon House Arts Foundation, Athens, Georgia

2016

     ‘Reverie’ within ‘Haute and Knotty Exhibition’, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Dodd Galleries, Athens, Georgia

2013

     Juried Student Exhibition, Dodd Galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia

2012

Foundations Exhibition, Dodd Galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia

 Education:

     B.F.A. Textile Design and Fiber Arts 2016

Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia