Nate Lowman
Nate Lowman
Nate Lowmanis an American artist known for his twist on pop art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
art
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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.
desire different artwork
There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.
selfish kids artist
People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it's how I make my living.
art thinking want
I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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.
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
whereas
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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.
people
Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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.
mix politics
When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
elegance
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
believe
I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.