Nate Lowman
Nate Lowman
Nate Lowmanis an American artist known for his twist on pop art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
feelings impossible painting
For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.
failure love
I love language, and I love the failure of language.
dot drop
To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.
elegance
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
art bummed change dictate expensive gambling habits meaning paintings people perceive shame value
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
images
I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
people
Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
great imagination
I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
whereas
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
art
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
differences generosity selfishness
I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity . It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.
news use stealing
A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
fighting miscommunication communicate
I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.
beautiful language express-yourself
Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.