(Atlanta) Bill Lowe Gallery will open a unique exhibition featuring Portuguese artist Fernando Gaspar on January 11, 2019, (6 to 9 PM) on view until March 2019. Floating Machines will feature a copious amount of unique works by Gaspar including his former artist series Separated Lands. In addition, various paintings and wall sculptures by titans such as Thornton Dial, Herbert Creecy and Michael David will be on display.  Born in 1966 in Portugal, Fernando Gaspar is a highly collected and self-taught abstract expressionist. From an early age, Gaspar had a strong interest in movement, composition, and the natural order of ancestral terrains. Following his first show in 1995, he received over 50 solo shows, various awards nationally, and the ability to evolve his work towards an increasingly reflective and contemporary approach.  Floating Machines is a collaboration between Fernando Gaspar and the ancestral biologics within the earth and sky. Bill Lowe Gallery has amassed this new series in anticipation, with special focus on the adaptation following his exploration of the biological, physiological, and psychological impact of our ancestries. Together these form the ingenious mechanical paintings.    “Scrawl in the air. First, I sketch the big insect carcass with my arms. Then I rehearse his movement, his blind march, his groping forewarned. Curve to curve I draw the fuselage of this ingenious machine in urgent transformation. Enigmatic structure, articulated and fragile, with bandages and hinges that crack, amber bones and long legs that never end, hands that dredge the depth. And these magnificent constructions, which are rebuilt and adapted, which are released from essential physics, may be migrating birds, they may be ancestral fish; these constellations of wire, bits of meteor, planks, and human strength, sail, sail in the most rarefied purpose, in the most absolute of desires, in the most uncertain of destinies, but sail ... guided by the waves of the sea, by the false maps of the empires, by the unnamed winds. For a moment they lie down on the smoothness of the canvas, they show themselves, expecting seductively and impatiently; dragonflies of fog in bridal court, flapping wings. We enter their warm, pulsating, irrigated stomachs, living caves resonating; volatiles, levitate stretching the ropes that hold them to the safe ground. Some loose, others never, and in this vital bump, rehearse the great flight, the fantastic flight of these enormous creatures, insect-birds, planet-fish, ship-men, of these flying trees. And in this suspended state, of timeless and free condition, we begin all over again; we flew over the sea, into the mountains, beyond the earth; in them we come again to the new lands, founding cities, planting memories and forgetfulness, sowing poetry. -Fernando Gaspar (2018)”   Along with other various artist, Bill Lowe Gallery will be providing light h’ordeurves, drink, and valet for the Opening Reception on January 11th, 2019, 6-9PM. This will be free and open to the public. Kids are welcome.    

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For almost three decades, Bill Lowe Gallery has served as a portal to global visual culture for art enthusiasts around the world. Our unique juxtaposition of style and substance is articulated in exhibitions that embrace universal and eternal considerations with great visual drama. This has earned the gallery recognition as a sanctuary for the cross-cultural intersection of beauty and meaning.  The gallery's philosophical architecture is built upon a reverence for the alchemical nature of artistic expression. Our vision honors the profoundly spiritual nature of visual language and the role it can play in affecting paradigm shifts at both a personal and societal level.  It is with this mandate that we have assembled a world-class stable of artists who intuitively have their fingers on the pulse of the Universe. Their expression is not an ironic or satirical look at the human condition. Instead, the gallery’s program presents powerful, content-driven works that utilize technical mastery and a visual eloquence to transform the human heart and soul at intimate levels. (www.lowegallery.com) For our collectors, the gallery is an oasis of beauty. Of civility. Of contemplation. This is coupled with a dynamism informed by a world view rooted in the metaphysical aspects of history, anthropology, spirituality, philosophy, psychology, and biology. Bill Lowe Gallery has a transformative impact that forever enlightens those who experience it. Bill Lowe Gallery has become a cultural institution in the Southern United States. Our commitment is to reflect Atlanta's emergence as the world's new epicenter of art, science, and technology through a kinetic dialogue with artists and audiences across the globe. 

Event Information:
Artist: Fernando Gaspar
Location: Bill Lowe Gallery
764 Miami Circle, Suite 210, Atlanta, GA 30324
Opening Reception: Friday, January 11th, 2019, 6 to 9 PM
Website: www.lowegallery.com