A self-taught artist from a long lineage of woodworkers, textile designers, and metalsmiths, Beck Lowry makes elaborate wall-hung sculptures carved from assemblages of laminated plywood, intricately ornamented in mixed media. Largely biomorphic in form, these abstract artworks draw their language from both the natural world (mimicking the aposematic markings and structural coloration of flora and fauna) and the rich inheritance of decorative patterning made by artisans for millennia. Lowry’s work is born from a need to build through physical ritual and locate themselves within a lineage of artisanal laborers. By combining these impulses, methods, and materials with contemporary ego-centered conceptions of art, Lowry's work explores the many uses of art objects, from protection to storing memories or history.