Biography

Orien Lowell Greenough

1921            Born in Los Angeles, CA (February 15)

2008            Died in North Hollywood, CA (April 21)

Education

1945-46     Pasadena School of Art, Pasadena, CA

1946-47     Bisttram School of Fine Art, Taos, NM

1951-52     School of Arts and Letters of The University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

1965-66     Member, Artists’ Protest Committee

Exhibitions

1949            City of Los Angeles Art Exhibition, Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA

1951            School of Arts and Letters of The University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

1951            The Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, CA

1953            San Gabriel Valley Artists Exhibit, The Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, CA

1954            California State Exposition and Fair Art Show, Sacramento, CA

1955            The Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

1958            10th San Gabriel Valley Artists Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

1959            Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA

1961            Lowell Greenough, Galerie de Ville, Los Angeles, CA

1962            Lowell Greenough, Galerie de Ville, Los Angeles, CA

1962            Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1963            First Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

1966            The Artists’ Tower of Protest (a project by Mark di Suvero and Irving Petlin), West Hollywood, CA

1977            The Sun and Moon, Jack Carr Gallery, Pasadena, CA

1991            Surrealism 6, Goldfarb Vein Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

1992            They Came from L.A. II, Five artists from LAART in Los Angeles: Chip Ivester, Forrest Meader, Lowell Greenough, Natalie Kahn, Eric Zammitt, Galerie Atelier, Philadelphia, PA

1992            Color in a Dark World, LA Art Installations Gallery, Encino, CA

1992            Holocausts, LA Art Installations Gallery, Encino, CA

1993            Metamorphosis, LA Art Installations Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993            Geometric Inclinations, LA Art Installations Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993            Censored, LA Art Installations Gallery, Encino, CA

2014            The Peace Warrior – Reflections of War, Louis Lazarra Gallery, North Hollywood, CA

2015            Orien Lowell Greenough: Lives Matter, 2A Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

Dambrot, Shana Nys. LA Weekly, February 19, 2015.

Frascina, Francis. Art, politics and dissent: Aspects of the art left in sixties America, Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 1999.

Secunda, Arthur. “Lowell Greenough,” Artforum, October 1962.

Cole, Charlene. Art Review, 1961.

Henry Seldis, Los Angeles Times, 1961.

Pasadena Independent, Tuesday, December 6, 1960, p. 13.