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Nate Lowman Escalade 2005-07 silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas 71 x 60 in. (180.3 x 152.4 cm.)
Provenance Maccarone, New York Catalogue Essay “I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don’t know what it is, but I know it when I see it.” NATE LOWMAN, 2012 The work of Nate Lowman is an emotional exploration of American culture. With its matrices of ink dots and a shape reminiscent of an action burst, Escalade, 2005-07, gives a nod to Pop art icon Roy Lichtenstein’s comic book-style paintings. While Lichtenstein’s bursts of action are indicative of an attraction to the impact of commercial printing, Lowman’s bullet hole imagery instead evokes a façade of tough guy machismo. Lowman’s eye-catching iconography is no less a visually communicative explosive force. Sourced from trompe-l’oeil stickers of bullet holes meant to be applied to the glass of car windows, Lowman’s bullet holes conjured up notions of urban masculinity, menace and aggression. Through reappropriation, Lowman unveils the wider cultural obsession with violence emerging from gun and gang culture. Lowman’s salient source material for Escalade, 2005-07, reveals a fresh sociological study on this particular subset of society as well as the desensitization to violent events. Lowman embraces a sense of delinquency in his imagery, imbuing it with irony at the culturally absurd. Thematically guided by themes of commerce, death and desire, he presents his own version of twenty-first century Americana. Lowman’s Escalade, 2005-07 transforms the detritus of pop culture with formal intensity into an indelible high water mark of the art of today. Read More