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Philadelphia-based artist Tristin Lowe shares the sensibility of an important group of American artists, including Tim Hawkinson, Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, who create complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His works explore the search for something greater, a journey to the shadowy places between the zealous innocence of youth and feelings of absurdity and fatalistic abandonment. Whether replicating the intimate spaces of childhood memory or making a clown fly and a pillow gurgle bourbon, Lowe’s earlier works evoke child-like fantasy, humor and a sophisticated attention to the surreal world of dreams. In contrast, his current work, which focuses on outer space, planets, satellites, black holes, gravity and orbital motion, seems more subdued and contemplative—a yearning to discover our own inner spaces.