Nate Lowman Before and After
Nate Lowman Before and After by Jim Lewis is a comprehensive monograph published by Aspen Art Press in 2019. This edition spans 240 pages and is presented in English. The book explores the work of Nate Lowman, who engages with themes of humanity and popular culture, reflecting on the collective American experience through his art. Lowman’s approach highlights the duality of desire, utilizing familiar images that are both recognizable and subject to shifting interpretations.
Readers will find a detailed examination of Lowman’s artistic practice, which includes paintings, sculptures, and installations that engage with the complexities of modern life. The book delves into how he reinterprets images from American pop culture and the 24-hour news cycle, constructing narratives that address often unspoken aspects of contemporary existence. Through various studio techniques, Lowman creates layers of meaning that bridge the personal and the universal, capturing cycles of decay and renewal. This monograph serves as an insightful resource for those interested in contemporary art and individual artists.
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Taking humanity and popular culture as his subject matter, Nate Lowman (born 1979) approaches these themes as an active participant in the collective American experience. Underscoring this is desire: a longing for something or someone, or a wish for something to happen. The duality inherent in desire is contained in Lowman’s use of well-known images whose meanings are both instantly recognizable and constantly in flux. Appropriated, relatable images and language from American pop culture and its 24-hour news cycle form a narrative and tell part of the American story. Angels, poppies, hearts, pine-tree air fresheners, smiley faces, iconic celebrities, crosses and news articles–all presented through the lens of desire–confront viewers with the things of modern life that are often left unsaid and unexamined.
For more than a decade, Nate Lowman has produced paintings, sculptures, and (often salon-style) installations that process and represent the unfolding human experience in a visual environment of endlessly proliferating public media archives. Re-presenting and reframing techniques of image reproduction as painterly practice, Lowman constructs narratives condensed in layers of studio techniques, including printing, cropping, projecting, cutting, staining, repurposing, lacquering, stripping and stretching. His paintings explore the capacity of images to mediate between the personal and the universal in cycles of decay and renewal.
Published on the occasion of the Aspen Art Museum’s exhibition of the New York-based artist, Nate Lowman is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to date.
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