The Psychedelic Landscapes of Terri Loewenthal

“To have a psychedelic experience is to free your mind from its normal constraints,” Loewenthal says in her artist statement. “My work is a marriage of calculation and spontaneity. I have a toolkit and a sense of what might happen, but at the same time, it’s a surprise. I love the idea of making an 'impossible' image.” Loewenthal hopes that her immersive fantastical landscapes will reconnect viewers with the vitality of nature, and that her work will “help preserve the wildness of our open spaces—by heightening and newly envisioning that wildness.” 

Loewenthal has a BA from Rice University in Houston. She has exhibited at a number of art venues, including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Minnesota Street Projects (San Francisco) and the Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), and has work in many private collections. She also founded The Chetwood, an artist run residency program providing housing, studio space, community outreach and support for artists visiting the Bay Area. Loewenthal collaborates regularly with many Bay Area arts organizations including Creative Growth (Oakland, CA) and has been an active musician for over a decade; her bands Call and Response, Rubies and Shock have performed extensively nationally and internationally. Loewenthal is originally from Washington, D.C. and South Florida.

Psychscapes is concurrently on view with Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders, and an Ansel Adams exhibition through August 31, 2019.