A stunning, focused document of Nate Lowman's work from the past four
years
"Brewing the good, the bad, and the ugly of consumerist modern life in
his masterful paintings, Lowman draws a portrait of the times that is
equally mischievous and somber." --BOMB Magazine
With an archive of source material amassed and processed over time,
Lowman creates slippery, layered images that transform visual referents
found in the news, media, and art history. In this volume, Lowman plays
with cataclysmic imagery that probes the tensions between the everyday
and the extreme, presence and absence, and violence and representation.
In his vibrant paintings of digitally rendered hurricane imagery and
crime scene photography cataloging the aftermath of the October 2017
mass shooting in Las Vegas, he considers the physicality of his medium
in connection to the chaos of his subject matter.
Spotlighting Lowman's exhibitions at David Zwirner in London and New
York along with other recent work, this monograph includes a text by
Lynne Tillman that provides a unique perspective across all bodies of
Lowman's oeuvre. In an interview with Andrew Paul Woolbright for The
Brooklyn Rail, Lowman discusses his engagement with representation and
meaning, twentieth-century gestural and pop art, slow painting, and
American violence.
