Nate Lowman is an American artist, well-known for being part of a group of New York artists who called themselves “Warhol’s children”.
His art, indeed, is interdisciplinary and contemporary, with a focus on pop and trash culture, very much influenced by Andy Warhol.

The main theme of his work lies in creating connections from the detritus of pop culture to its spectators. Lowman states: “I don’t have a great imagination to share something with you that I don’t know, so it’s about interpreting things, a dialogue”.
Brilliantly juxtaposing the raw appeal of familiar cultural debris and an energetic re-examination of Pop Art, the images he gathers often come from the news cycle or the crime police blotter. The result is a critique of culture that reflects upon issues such as the cult of celebrity, material consumption and violence.

Lowman brought downtown nonconformity to the mainstream art world with his “bullet holes” paintings. Bullet Holes, although resembling a very simple artwork, hides a lot of different references and has its roots in the American Pop Art.
Based on images of bullet holes, identical and reflected in the opposite way through a print on metallic paper, this work conceptualizes violence in popular culture as a direct successor to the remarkable Death And Disaster series of Andy Warhol.
Reminiscences of Lichtenstein are also visible when it comes to the cartoonish pop aesthetic.

Metaphorically, the deafening shot of the gun refers to the nonchalant prevalence of violence in media culture and America’s obsession with guns. “America is built on violence “ Lowman has said. The destructive force of the bullets culminates in a bottomless black hole at the center of the two images, resulting in a powerful yet playfully hopeful message of culture awareness.

Lowman came to prominence in the New York art scene during the early 2000s. He has has solo exhibitions in New York, London, Greenwich, Greece and many other places. His work has also been exhibited by the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Palais De Tokyo in Paris and the Whitney Museum Of American Art in New York. He lives and works in New York City, NY.