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.
confuses feels indulgence interested
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.
elegance
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
mix politics
When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
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.
architecture centered developing form rapidly
Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
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.