Lowman accumulates these distinctly American forms of communication and reimagines them as a visual language with which to explore violence, consumption, celebrity, crime, failure, mythmaking, decay and disaster. At its crux is the collection of familiar images and materials – newspaper clippings, bumper stickers, Xeroxed fliers, trash. Lowman’s work spans painting, printing, sculpture, installation and collage. In the early 2000s, Lowman and his friends – among them Dan Colen, Dash Snow and Ryan McGinley – achieved acclaim for disrupting the art mainstream with youthful, downtown irreverence. He graduated in 2001 and worked part-time as a security guard at Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. Lowman moved to New York City in 1997 to study at NYU. The collection consists of a Varsity Jacket, Sweater, Soccer Jersey, Hooded Sweatshirt, Short and two T-Shirts.Īmerican artist Nate Lowman was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1979 and raised in Idyllwild, California. That’s really what this show is about.”įor spring, Supreme has created a collection featuring artwork from Aeon Flux. “I’m interested in getting the viewer to shift his mind into thinking in a new way. I’m not interested in doing either one of those,” Chung has said. “Working in Hollywood, things tend to get polarized into either being pure escapism or something didactic. The series’ depictions of violence, sexuality, domination, fetish, and death are open-ended and unrestrained. Trevor Goodchild is her enemy, as well as her lover. She is not upholding any law or ideology. Aeon is self-motivated – she is not an agent of any state or organization. The titular character is an agent from Monica intent on infiltrating and destroying Brenga and its leader, Trevor Goodchild.Īeon Flux wildly subverts conventional notions of heroic action by emphasizing ambiguity and shifting perspectives. The cities are ideologically at-odds – Monica is an anarchist dystopia Brenga, a tightly controlled police state.
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The series is widely regarded as groundbreaking – both in its cinematic visual style and its subversive approach to animated storytelling.Īeon Flux is largely set in the warring cities of Monica and Brenga, devastated by an environmental apocalypse that has decimated the global population. Aeon Flux premiered in late 1991 as part of MTV’s Liquid Television – a late-night adult animation series comprised of short, experimental segments. Aeon Flux is an animated science fiction television series created by Peter Chung.
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