Adam Lowenbein, an artist who splits his time between Long Island, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, encouraged art students to get their ideas from the world around them at his opening exhibition of “Daylight” on Feb. 6.
“I feel like my work deals with what is in the world around me, my environment, things that I think about,” said Lowenbein, whose work is being featured at the Maurice N. Flecker Gallery in the Southampton Building through March 6.
“Being out in the real world doing a real job, interacting with real people, that’s a really important aspect of making your work too, because you need something to make your work about, right?”
Lowenbein was chosen to be this semester’s artist because of his rich background in art, his use of color, and his traditional contemporary art form.
“His work has a lot of design theory and design elements that we teach our students here,” said Joshua Olsen, who coordinated the exhibition and teaches art and animation at the college. “[His] usage of color and especially in his work, unrestricted colors. As well as all of those things, his work being very strong, and as well as his accolades too.”
As an artist, Lowenbein likes to see the beauty in things that others may not see. “I’ve always been interested in capturing kind of like the murky underside of things,” he said. “I like taking what could be a pretty picture and finding the strange thing about it.”
Lowenbein said he titled the exhibition “Daylight” because he appreciates the brightness daylight brings to the darkness.
“If you’re up at night, if you’re worried, you know you’re gonna wait until the morning. It’s gonna become clear.”
