• Karen Comer Lowe, Director

Karen Comer Lowe
Director

Karen Comer Lowe has been working with museums and galleries for 15 years. She earned her BFA in Art History from Howard University in Washington, DC and MSEd in Museum Education from Bank Street College in New York. She has worked in curatorial, educational and directorial positions in institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, the Tubman African American Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the City of Atlanta's Gallery Program.

In 2003, Karen started her own art advisory firm, which assists corporate and individual clients with acquiring and maintaining collections of fine art.  She is currently directing the firm and working with clients including Sunrise Bank, The Fulton County Arts Council, The Rialto Center for Performing Arts, and others. 

Over the years, Karen has curated exhibitions of fine art mediums ranging from photography, to painting, to sculpture, and installation. She has presented artistic styles including realism, abstraction, conceptual, and pop. Karen has curated exhibitions of emerging and notable artists including Elizabeth Catlett, Herbert Creecy, and Radcliffe Bailey; and has had the honor of working with the prestigious Barnett-Aden Collection, which includes works by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden and Edward M. Bannister.

She has lectured at local and regional museums, galleries and private clubs throughout the southeast and has participated in workshops and panels at the Smithsonian Institution’s-Institute for Museum Leadership, the Georgia Council for the Arts –Regional Visual Arts Panel Review and the Forward Arts Foundation's-Regional Arts Award Committee.

Karen is a trained fine art appraiser and is associated with the American Society of Appraisers. Her work and career have been recognized throughout the southeast.