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Tim Lowly (born 1958 in Hendersonville, North Carolina) is a Chicago artist, musician, and teacher. He is known for compassionateegg tempera pictures of children in mysterious circumstances.^[1]

Tim Lowly was born Timothy Hadlock Grubbs. From the age of three he lived inSouth Korea, where his parents werePresbyterianmissionaries. He learned piano and guitar and still plays and composesfolk-rock music. Lowly attendedCalvin College inGrand Rapids, Michigan, majoring in art. He married Sherrie Rubingh in 1981, and rather than subordinate anyone's last name, they changed their surname to Lowly.^[2]

After a visit to Korea and Europe, Lowly took up the exactingrenaissance art ofegg tempera painting, in which egg yolk is mixed with pigment to make paint. Since 2000 Lowly had primarily worked with matte acrylic.

The Lowlys had a daughter, Temma, in 1985, who was brain-damaged and is frequently the subject of Mr. Lowly's paintings. Lowly says, "Part of my fairly political agenda is to say thatdisabled children are a part of life. These are not freaks. What I'm saying is that we should advocate for eyes of compassion that see human beings as human beings, rather than separating them into the beautiful, the ugly, the normal, the freak."^[2]

Lowly has been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts in 1987 and Fellowships in Visual Art from theIllinois Arts Council in 1995 and 2005. Tim Lowly was gallery director and professor atNorth Park University in Chicago from 1994 to 2023. Currently he is focusing on art making and resides in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.

• TheArkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
• Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia
• Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
• Frye Museum, Seattle, Washington
• The Graham Center Museum,Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois
• Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts,UCLA, Los Angeles
• TheKalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
• TheKresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
• The McDonald's Corporate Collection, Oak Brook, Illinois
• TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• TheMinneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois
• TheRockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
• TheCharles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin

• Tim Lowly's website

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