Nate Lowman

Salon 94, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling to the edges and sides. All four edges show craquelure to the paint surface, which is inherent to the way the canvas was stretched by the artist. There is no evidence of paint loss. Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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"A lot of my art is about violence and crime. I also really like shaped canvases. I’ve always loved Ellsworth Kelly, I love all the Brazilians, the Neoconcrete people like Lygia Clark. I always wanted to make these shaped canvas objects but I didn’t want to make a Blinky Palermo with jagged edges; I wanted to make something else. The bullet holes were a good opportunity to have the cultural things that I’m interested in come together with that. It was an experiment to see how you can get pretty." - Nate Lowman