Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment

Stacy Tabb - You Are What You Eat
2026-06-03 - 2026-08-29 | Third Floor West Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Stacy Tabb which will be on view in the Third Floor West Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.

About the exhibit:
The “You Are What You Eat Series” is comprised of multiple species of creatures, each depicted containing their primary food source in place of their scales, feathers, shells, and fur. They were drawn using pencil on paper then transferred to carving blocks via carbon paper. Each was carved and detailed using sharp woodcarving gouges, then inked and printed on fine, archival watercolor paper using professional oil-based relief ink. Select prints were then highlighted using watercolor paints.
The series is very much inspired by Scandinavian and Pacific Northwest styles of folk art, where all negative space is filled, and perspective is very subjective. Geometric shapes take the place of shadows and highlights, and key elements, such as the lightning bolts and mayflies, and are echoed throughout the series. Later pieces contain elements that pay homage to the indigenous cultures that share space with the animals’ native habitats.

About the artist:
I was born in Huntsville, AL, and began drawing and painting from a very early age. My formative years were spent in the cities and deserts of Saudi Arabia, as I traveled with my family. We explored the art, landscapes, and wildlife of over two dozen countries in a series of journeys over multiple, very influential years. Greece and Egypt were my particular favorites, and have definite influence in my artwork.
In my university education, I studied graphic design, drawing, and printmaking. My artistic training and professional career have explored every medium, from digital design to technical drawing to website design, and now back to printmaking.
In 2001, my husband Daniel and I packed our two small children off to Florida, then spent the next 20 years observing and photographing the diverse wildlife and landscapes. My drawing style is typically very realistic, so I sought to push that limitation by delving into various artistic styles, such as the very stylized world of folk art. I always start from a standpoint of realism in my drawings, then work backwards towards the stylized: the pelican *must* be recognizable as a pelican, after all.
In returning again into printmaking, I’ve learned to have a clear path, and know what I want to accomplish from the outset; one cannot just add a shadow with a slightly darker blend of pigment, or lighten up an area with a bit more titanium white. In printmaking, everything must be planned from the start, whether it is positive – in the case a shape or pattern that gets inked – or negative – in the case of a space that is carved out and will not take ink. These work together to form highlights, the lowlights, and the entirety of the piece, and there’s no turning back once carving has started, so the plan must be solid.
Back home now in North Alabama, with the kids all grown up, we live on an ex-hay farm we’re converting into a fruit and nut orchard, and making as much art as possible.

Taylor McLendon - What We Carry / What We Release
2026-06-03 - 2026-08-29 | North Floor Gallery, 2211 Seminole Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35805, United States
This exhibition round includes works provided by Taylor McLendon which will be on view in the North Floor Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.

From the artist:
I am interested in what happens after strength.
My work begins at the moment when control slips, when endurance becomes weight and when myth cracks under the pressure of time, responsibility and consequence. I paint figures we are taught to trust leaders’ legends and constructed symbols of certainty. I render them not as monuments but as bodies under strain carrying historical expectation and the cost of survival in their posture and surface.
Dripping and running paint is not an aesthetic choice alone, it is a refusal of containment. Gravity asserts itself across the canvas reminding us that no figure however revered remains untouched by consequence. The paint moves the way memory moves slowly, unavoidably staining what it passes through.
Recurring symbols appear throughout my work hands in various stages of holding and releasing the Tin Man in states of becoming historical figures weathered by invisible labor. These are not illustrations of power but examinations of its burden. I am drawn to the space between armor and vulnerability where protection becomes isolation and strength demands silence.
Place and absence matter in my practice. Figures rooted in folklore and regional memory exist alongside globally recognized icons not to elevate one above another but to question whose sacrifices are remembered whose stories harden into myth and whose are allowed to fall quietly out of view. History is not neutral, it chooses what to preserve.
I do not seek resolution. My paintings live in tension between holding on and letting go between construction and collapse. I want the viewer to feel the weight of that pause. The moment when release is both terrifying and necessary.
This work is not about reverence. It is about recognition.
We are all carrying something. The question is not whether we endure but what endurance leaves behind.

Mary Beth Johns - As They Are
2026-06-03 - 2026-08-29 | First Floor Ramp Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Mary Beth Johns which will be on view in the First Floor Ramp Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.

Mike Mare and Neil Kendricks- Temple of Story: Witness
2026-06-03 - 2026-08-29 | First Floor West Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Mike Mare and Neil Kendricks which will be on view in the First Floor West Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.

About the exhibit:
Temple of Story is an ongoing narrative installation series by visual artist/ writer Neil Kendricks and composer/ sound artist Mike Mare. The artists’ longtime friendship and collaboration thrives on the interplay of images and sounds to approach storytelling as a quiet inheritance – shaped by memory, imagination and what passes between them. Gradually, meanings of specific pieces emerge as the gallery is transformed into a space for reflection. In these new works Temple of Story: Witness, stories are deliberately left ambiguous and unresolved. As these haunting stories, mysterious images and lush soundscapes are sent out into the world, the stories are carried, remembered and reshaped over time.

About the artists:
Mike Mare and Neil Kendricks are multidisciplinary artists whose collaborative work exists at the intersection of sound, image, and narrative. Together, they create immersive environments where experience is not fixed, but felt—emerging through tone, texture, and presence.
Neil Kendricks is an artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer, and educator whose work moves fluidly between film and mixed-media practices. He holds a Master’s degree in Television, Film and New Media from San Diego State University. His films—including Loop, Memory Lines, Suspension, and the award-winning Book of Skin—have screened at international festivals. His visual work reflects on identity and the lasting imprint of systemic structures, as seen in his residency at Art Produce and subsequent exhibitions. Across mediums, Kendricks builds worlds that feel both intimate and unresolved, where meaning gathers slowly.
Mike Mare is a composer and sound artist working with texture as a primary language—layering electronics, ambient guitar, and tonal drift into immersive sonic environments. His work spans film, installation, and performance, with credits including Betrayal at Attica (HBO), the award-winning New York Seen From Above (The New Yorker Documentary Series), and Book of Skin, for which he composed the score and sound design—extending his practice of creating sound that inhabits image rather than accompanies it. He is best known as a member and co-producer of the influential hip-hop group Dälek, the UK-based band Holy Scum, and his varied solo and collaborative projects, moving between disciplines with a sensitivity to space, weight, and resonance. His compositions often hover between the cinematic and the abstract, shaping emotional undercurrents rather than directing them.
Together, Mare and Kendricks approach storytelling as a quiet inheritance—something carried, altered, and passed between forms. Their collaborative work resists linear resolution, inviting a slower encounter where sound and image intertwine, and meaning is discovered through attention, reflection, and time.

Brett Hollis - Ecosystems: Paintings and Drawings 2025-26
2026-06-03 - 2026-08-29 | First Floor Main Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Brett Hollis which will be on view in the First Floor Main Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.

About the exhibit:
This exhibition is a range of work from 2025-2026. Thematically, the work reveals psychological vignettes, moments of tension, reflection, and transformation. Drowning the viewer’s senses with colorful and kinetic forms, the pieces invite immersion into emotional and perceptual intensity. Each work operates as a fragment of a larger internal narrative, oscillating between chaos and clarity, instinct and control. Through movement, color, and abstraction, the exhibition captures the flux of the human psyche in motion.

About the artist:
Brett Hollis is an artist known for creating works that blend abstract, cartoon, and contemporary art styles. His pieces often feature vibrant colors, whimsical forms, and dynamic compositions, evoking playful yet thought-provoking themes. Hollis’s approach bridges traditional and modern art, combining the expressive freedom of abstraction with the storytelling elements of cartoons, resulting in works that are accessible and visually captivating. His art appeals to those seeking creativity that defies conventional boundaries while celebrating modern artistic expression.

Alyssa Grey - The Space Between Leaving and Staying
2026-06-03 - 2026-08-29 | Third Floor East Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Alyssa Grey which will be on view in the Third Floor East Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.

About the exhibit:
The Space Between Leaving and Staying explores how physical space can become a form of emotional architecture. Centering materials around the idea of DIY home repair: scrappy, pragmatic, and temporary. Examining the tension between care and compromise reveals how makeshift repairs and momentary solutions mirror the dynamics of our closest relationships.
Imperfect, temporary, and continually evolving, the work functions as an emotional structure that positions viewers as onlookers catching glimpses of private conversations and interactions. This echoes the splendor and discomfort of intimacy, and the quiet persistence of trying to make things work.
My work investigates the dynamics of personal relationships through the framework of spatial relations, exploring how physical positioning can act as a stand-in for emotional structure. I create interdependent networks whereby units rely on one another to function as a means of support for isolated moments within the work. The work is a never-ending experiment, harnessing industrial and organic materials to find new and unlikely combinations that coexist while enduring difficult relations.
By crafting my own tools and equipment, and jerry-rig problems rather than fix them, I create objects that reflect the expediency of do-it-yourself, lower-middle-class home projects. The soiled structures form quick-fix foundations, stubbornly clinging to kindred objects as a coping mechanism. By choosing to work with soda cans, duct tape, and other materials, I fabricate double meanings and imbed poorly made jokes within the larger sculptural systems. These jokes always fall short of a punchline, leaving them confused and alone.

About the artist:
Alyssa Grey works intuitively to create interdependent networks whereby units rely upon each other in order to function as a means of support for isolated moments in the work. She creates a conversation between the work and the spaces in which they are residing.
Fueled by the never-ending question, “what if?” Grey experiments with industrial and organic materials to find new and unlikely combinations of both. These personally inflected and playful objects draw from the “do-it-yourself” expediency of lower-middle-class home projects which often entails crafting her own tools and equipment to create a “quick-fix.”
Alyssa Grey attended University of Louisiana at Lafayette and received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture in 2020. She then went on to obtain her Master’s Degree in Sculpture at Boston University in 2024. Grey currently lives and works in Huntsville, AL where she is an Art Instructor at Alabama A&M University.

Caroline Wang - Expressions of Life: Wildlife and People Through Watercolor
2026-06-03 - 2026-08-29 | Second Floor Connector Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Caroline Wang which will be on view in the Second Floor Connector Gallery from June 3 – August 29, 2026. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, August 29 from 5-7 pm.

About the artist:
Caroline Wang is a watercolor artist who paints from inspiration, believing that anything in life can become a subject. With a strong foundation in drawing, she approaches each painting with freedom—designing and creating whatever captures her imagination. Every painting she creates carries a story, and through her art books, she gives those stories a voice. She believes artists should tell the original stories behind their work, rather than leaving them to be interpreted long after they are gone.
Since 2003, Caroline Wang has exhibited her work throughout the Southeastern United States, including many major cities and her home base in Huntsville. She has held over 70 solo exhibitions. After retiring from NASA in 2016, she established her studio at Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment Center. Having a permanent space to share her work with the public has allowed her to slow down her outside exhibitions and focus more deeply on creating, reflecting, and telling the stories behind her art.
Caroline often shares that she has published seven art books, each representing a different chapter of her artistic journey: Space Exploration Stories by Caroline’s Watercolor Strokes, From Artist’s Eyes, Wildlife in Color—Animal Expressions, Less is More, Landscape by Caroline Wang, and City Memories: Caroline’s Watercolor Stories. Together, these works reflect her dedication to preserving life through art and storytelling. People’s Expressions in Caroline’s Art is her seventh book and is currently under review by the publisher.
From an early age, Caroline was inspired by visits to museums and galleries, where she listened to others interpret the meanings behind paintings. Those moments stayed with her. Over time, she realized something important—she wanted to tell her own stories. Rather than leaving her artwork open to distant interpretation, she chose to preserve the memories, emotions, and intentions behind each piece. This realization led her to publish her art books, giving her paintings both a visual and a written voice.
Beyond painting, Caroline embraces many passions. She finds joy in music, playing the violin and piano, and singing for herself. She also enjoys sports, including tennis and swimming. Swimming, in particular, has become an important part of her life, helping her maintain her health and balance. These experiences quietly shape her perspective and become part of the stories she tells through her art.
Through her books, Caroline hopes to give her paintings a lasting voice. Writers tell stories through words, while artists tell stories through color, feeling, and imagination. By sharing the meaning behind her work, she invites viewers to connect more deeply—not only with the image, but with the moment behind it.
Her wish is simple: that long into the future, her paintings will continue to speak—and that the stories behind them will not be forgotten.
This exhibition at Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment Center presents a variety of her painting styles, from wildlife to landscapes, along with selected works exploring human expression.
Website: www.cwanggallery.com
Studio: #204, Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment
