Janice Lowry
Janice Lowry (March 30, 1946 – September 20, 2009) was an American visual artist who worked in Arizona and California and was known primarily for her assemblages, collages, paintings, and the elaborately visual journals that she kept throughout her life. Biography Lowry's highly biographical artwork is rooted in her early family life. She was one of five children whose mother married 7 times. Family instability and difficulty figure prominently in her work. At the age of 11, she started keeping a diary and continued to do so until 2007, with the exception of one decade. In 1965, Lowry married Jan Gilbert, whom she had known in high school. They soon had two children, Brandon and Kevin. Lowry painted at home and also worked for interior decorators. It was during this time that Lowry set up her first studio and started to show her work. Her assemblage work often was created with found objects and instead of framing the finished piece, which she couldn't afford, she installed the pieces in wooden frame boxes. Over the years, her assemblage work transitioned from impressionistic to introspective, mirroring her admiration for Frida Kahlo in the 1970s to 1980s. In 1973, Lowry moved to California