Noe Lozano (b. 1987, Texas) is an artist currently based in the Four Corners region of the United States.
His highly painterly and figurative images are sensual and expressive. Using digital and analog processes he creates images that move between stylization and visceral representation. The images have a sense of depth and fluidity, making the figures appear to be emerging from or falling back into watery abstraction.
His subject matter borrows from artists before him that have captured soft and intimate moments, all portrayed within a domestic sphere. The sensuality and liveliness of the bodies pictured are reinforced by their transformation through Lozano’s multi-step process that involves creating the decisive moment and post-production that includes the physical manipulation of the images in the studio.
Working in sculptural monochrome as well as color, Lozano creates a range of moods within his work. The black and whites have a relationship to film stills, chiaroscuro drawings along with historic and modern reproduction methods such as Xerox prints, drypoint etching and newsprint publications. The colored works vary from evocative, sunny or neon-hued scenes to settings that borrow rich, symbolic palettes from classical paintings. The nudes become celebrations of diverse skin tones and malleable flesh echoing both sepia pin-up photography and contemporary body studies within painting, fashion and performance.
Lozano’s conceptual approach brings our memory to the moment of seeing a Polaroid materialize in front of our eyes; noticing how a commercial image has decayed on a discarded magazine cover; or witnessing the distortion of a digital glitch within a video encounter. It reminds us that, ultimately, every image is constructed.