Justin Lowe: Hair of the Dog
Hair of the Dog pares down the artist’s immersive installation style, highlighting the intricacies of his practice and focusing in on individual works. Opens March 19 at Pepin Moore.
Lowe’s signature approach to collage is presented with works fashioned from trade paperbacks from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Developed in these new collages are disjointed and nostalgic narratives of psychedelic Americana, hippie culture, B-movie icons, and the occult. Similar to his site-specific installations, these works create disordered yet idealized histories with a tinge of dark satiric humor.
In the second gallery, Lowe will exhibit large-scale, collaged and painted, inkjet prints on canvas. Culled from the same source material, he has enlarged and printed his collages on canvas, then painted and collaged on these prints, reprocessing his own work as seemingly found images.
Justin Lowe (b. 1976, Dayton, OH) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. He holds a BA from Hampshire College and MFA from Columbia University. Past solo exhibitions include Werewolf Karaoke, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Freedom Time is Here Little Kittens, Galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris; 45 on the 33, Galleria Cesare Manzo, Rome; and Helter Swelter, Oliver Kamm/5BE, New York, among others. Lowe’s work has been exhibited widely at galleries and institutions including Gagosian Gallery, New York; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; Sculpture Center, Long Island City; QED Gallery, Los Angeles; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Castello di Rivoli, Turin; among others. His collaborations with Jonah Freeman include Bright White Underground at Country Club Projects, Los Angeles; Black Acid Co-op at Deitch Projects, New York; Hello Meth Lab in the Sun at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (with Alexandre Singh); and Hello Meth Lab with a View at The Station, Miami.
Images courtesy of the artist and Pepin Moore, Los Angeles
Justin Lowe, The End, 2010, acrylic, enamel, and paper on inkjet print on canvas, 71 1/2 x 141 1/2 inches
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