Rockmart Cultural Arts Center announces the opening of a solo art show featuring Ginger L. Lowry’s : Art of the Horse in Oil and Pastel.

September 2-October 21, 2021

Reception September 18th – 4-6 pm.

“Not your ordinary equine art”

That is Ginger’s quote that sums up her art in one tidy statement.

She specializes in doing her favorite subject, race horses, but also does rodeo horses, and birds.

Her work is collected and has won numerous awards, both nationally in the US, and internationally, including the UK, Dubai, Japan, France, and Australia.

It has also been featured in several national and international publications and television media.

Some of the special projects and commissions she has worked on, include:

2002 Trail of the Painted Ponies, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2005 Iroquois Steeplechase, Nashville, Tennessee

2008 and 2017 Atlanta Steeplechase, Atlanta, Georgia

2007 Dubai World Cup, Dubai, UAE

2018 Hilton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky

Her oil paintings are done with only a painting knife and she incorporates gold leaf in many of them.

They are a marvel of layers and textures, done in somewhat of an expressionist style, always challenging the viewer to find something new, each time they look into the heart of a painting.

The pastels are more traditional, but still in her own unique style.

They incorporate her use of pure, intense color and graphic design elements to achieve her goal of enticing the viewer into the world of action and motion that racing or bucking horses present.

Ginger grew up showing both English and western events with thoroughbreds and quarter horses on the family farm in Summerville, Georgia.

When she was 16, she started galloping race horses at Old Mill Farm in Cartersville, Georgia, under the tutelage of Horatio Luro, the trainer of Kentucky Derby winners Decidedly and Northern Dancer.

After attending Ringling College of Art and Design, she worked with some of the best flat and steeplechase stables in the nation, from Tennessee to Pennsylvania to New York, working with numerous champions.

In 1989 she retired as a thoroughbred trainer and amateur jockey after serious injuries in a starting gate accident.

She always dabbled with her art after college, but didn’t pursue a career professionally until after her accident, which she looks back as a blessing in disguise, requiring her to focus on her artistic abilities.

She currently resides in Cloudland, Georgia, on Lookout Mountain, with her husband Timothy Brown and various animals.

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