{"id":876888,"date":"2026-10-10T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876888\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:22:12","slug":"truman-lowe-listens-to-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876888\/","title":{"rendered":"Truman Lowe Listens to the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/art-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Art Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">In his first major retrospective, the Hooc\u0105k artist transforms natural materials into fluid sculptures that carry the memory of place, ancestry, and cultural survival.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/chinyere\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/tcwmarrow-headshot.JPG\" alt=\"Chinyere Erondu\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Truman-Lowe-----Ottawa-----1992---Pine--Peeled-Wood-Saplings--photo-by-Chinyere-Erondu_Hyperallergic.jpeg\" alt=\"Truman Lowe Listens to the Water\"\/><br \/>\n            Truman Lowe, \u201cOttawa\u201d (1992), pine, peeled wood saplings (all photos Chinyere Erondu\/Hyperallergic)<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Hooc\u0105k (Ho-Chunk) artist Truman Lowe\u2019s first major retrospective opens with \u201cOttawa\u201d (1992), a billowing sculpture of pine and peeled willow saplings that brings together the tributary currents of the rivers that marked the aquatic realms of his childhood. The form undulates with an audacious disregard for the material\u2019s inherent fixed state; each bend, movement, and ripple echoes Lowe\u2019s unwavering ethos that wood is water.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout Water\u2019s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe at the National Museum of the American Indian, Lowe resonates with Toni Morrison\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com\/websites.umass.edu\/dist\/f\/16818\/files\/2013\/03\/Morrison_Site-of-Memory.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sentiment<\/a> that \u201call water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.\u201d The works are arranged around four themes of moving water: Landscape and Place, Woodland Structures, Memory, and Shared Knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Hooc\u0105k culture, the number four holds reverence, history, and the recognition that repetition signifies permanence. This durability appears in multiple works by Lowe, such as \u201cMimi\u201d (1979), a sculpture composed of four peeled willow branches, four groupings of blue jay feathers, and collections of red beads in sequences of four that cocoon the four strips of leather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Truman-Lowe-----Wa--na--Cascade--2002---Aluminium--photo-by-Chinyere-Erondu-_Hyperallergic--1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1485\"  \/>Truman Lowe, \u201cW\u00e1na (Cascade)&#8221; (2002), aluminium <\/p>\n<p>    Keep reading with your email \u2014 it\u2019s free<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Create a free account to read more articles each month, and get the best of Hyperallergic in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#00AEEE\">Create free account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art Review In his first major retrospective, the Hooc\u0105k artist transforms natural materials into fluid sculptures that carry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-876888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}