{"id":644,"date":"2016-04-12T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=644"},"modified":"2016-04-12T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:55:08","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-nate-lowman-bullet-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-nate-lowman-bullet-holes","title":{"rendered":"WOW – Work Of the Week – Nate Lowman “Bullet Holes”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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NATE LOWMAN<\/b><\/span>
\nBullet Holes<\/em>
\n2010<\/span>
\nScreenprint on silver metallic paper<\/span>
\n35 x 25 in.
\nEdition of 50<\/span>
\nPencil signed, dated and numbered<\/span><\/p>\n

About This Work:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nate Lowman is an American artist, well-known for being part of a group of New York artists who called themselves \u201cWarhol\u2019s children\u201d.<\/span>
\nHis art, indeed, is interdisciplinary and contemporary, with a focus on pop and trash culture, very much influenced by Andy Warhol.<\/span><\/p>\n

The main theme of his work lies in creating connections from the detritus of pop culture to its spectators. Lowman states: \u201cI don\u2019t have a great imagination to share something with you that I don\u2019t know, so it\u2019s about interpreting things, a dialogue<\/i>\u201d.<\/span>
\nBrilliantly 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lowman brought downtown nonconformity to the mainstream art world with his \u201cbullet holes\u201d paintings. Bullet Holes<\/i>, although resembling a very simple artwork, hides a lot of different references and has its roots in the American Pop Art.<\/span>
\nBased 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<\/i> series of Andy Warhol.<\/span>
\nReminiscences of Lichtenstein are also visible when it comes to the cartoonish pop aesthetic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Metaphorically, the deafening shot of the gun refers to the nonchalant prevalence of violence in media culture and America\u2019s obsession with guns. \u201cAmerica is built on violence<\/i> \u201c 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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