Rick Lowe: Harbour Fragments

Harbour Fragments is an exhibition of new paintings by the Houston-based artist and community organizer Rick Lowe @rickloweofficial, which explores geography and abstraction, encompassing studio-based work and community-based projects that explore urban transformation.

These works depict abstract bird's-eye views of Hong Kong, showing portions of Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong Island, and Kowloon Peninsula, and interpreting this vibrant metropolis. His vibrantly colored canvases employ the visual language of painting, collage, and cartography. Born from an improvisational approach, inspired in part by domino games he plays with residents around the world, these paintings employ complex patterns and juxtapositions to foreground urban fabric and civic relationships.

Rather than directly mapping the cityscape, Lowe's paintings abstract the city's structure, relationships, and identity into a patchwork of grids and vectors. Complex blue linear geometries mirror the waters of Victoria Harbor, while green represents Hong Kong's mountains and parks. Countless white and red circles—arranged like the dots on a domino—are, as the artist puts it, "like flowers adorning the illuminated landscape at the city's edge." Multicolored shapes and curved lines weave through the compositions, suggesting the roads, bridges, and tunnels that connect the city's districts and the wider region. Several paintings depict alternate perspectives, resembling both a bird's-eye view and a traditional landscape painting with a horizon line, and a clear blue upper portion that resembles both water and sky.

Rick Lowe  - <<Harbour Fragments>>  
Date: 11 Sep – 1 Nov 2025
Gallery: @gagosian
Address: 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong
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