American artist Nate Lowman (b. 1979) is mostly known for hist art that appropriates, paints, and photographs existing imagery, mining the detritus of pop culture in mixed-media works that critique celebrity as well as deterioration and violence in American culture. Lowman’s works have mainly political intentions, also criticizing the typical behaviours of a modern age American.
“ A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they’ve already been talked about, already been consumed. I’m just reopening them to get at their second, third, or fourth meanings. It really comes down to language. I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can’t communicate with each other – we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well. Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything. „