Nate Lowman — Untitled (Love for 3 Oranges) Painting on Canvas, 2011
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This original painting by Nate Lowman exemplifies the artist’s distinctive use of handwritten text and spontaneous gesture. Combining loosely rendered abstract forms with diaristic language, the work blurs the boundary between personal note and painterly composition.
Lowman’s practice often incorporates fragments of cultural commentary, humor, and everyday observation. The casual script and soft, atmospheric color fields create a sense of immediacy, as if capturing a fleeting thought or moment.
The intimate scale enhances the personal nature of the work while reinforcing its conceptual clarity. Pieces of this type are central to Lowman’s exploration of communication, perception, and contemporary visual culture.
Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated by artist.
Dimension: Unframed 16 inches x 9 inches.
Nate Lowman (b. 1979, Las Vegas) is a New York–based contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, collage, and installation. His work appropriates and recontextualizes imagery from mass media, popular culture, and everyday visual language to examine themes of violence, consumerism, power, and communication in contemporary society.
Lowman’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Centre Pompidou. He is represented by leading international galleries and is widely recognized as a key figure in post-2000 American contemporary art.
