Bio - Robert Stuart Lowden
Robert was born in Buffalo, New York in 1960.
He was raised in North Buffalo and was often taken in his carriage to The Albright Knox art museum where he was treated to artists such as John Chamberlin, Jackson Pollock and the optics movement in painting.
He later attended SUNY at Buffalo and majored in music.
Buffalo became deeply depressed in the late 1970's and Lowden moved to Southern California where he moved in with his cousin, Jeffery Burr, and began to learn about the horror movie scene while working on such films as “From a Whisper to a Scream“, to the first “Tales From The Hood“.
At about this time Robert snagged a job at a local service bureau and madly gravitated towards Photoshop 1. He snuck back into the business after hours and mastered the app by doing illustrations for himself. He took these drawings to EZTV where Michael Masucci put them into a show at their Cyberspace Gallery.
Masucci also contacted some people at Warner Bros Audio Books and Mr. Lowden was given several projects including the cover for “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep“ by Philip Dick.
EZTV then gave Lowden an internship where he digitally designed the Poster/ One Sheet for Spike Lee's “ Girl Six”.
After this he contacted the newly formed studio of Dreamworks SKI and was given a job of tutoring older master artists in the new art of painting digitally for animation.
It went well and he was then put on contract to digitally paint backgrounds and effects for “The Prince of Egypt “, “Spirit” and “Eldorado”. Also at this time he studied drawing daily under Steve Huston at the studio.
After this he worked for Disney Animation on “ The Tigger Movie” and “Under The Tuscan Sun “ where he digitally painted matte paintings and backgrounds.
Mr. Lowden was an oil painter and a sculptor as well, having studied with Raoul Delasota , Olga Seem and Lee Whitten at Los Angeles City College.
After some years of experiencing the super fluidity of digital painting, his oil work and sculpture began to change into a morphic and fluid style that was a direct result of the digital experience.
To see some of this work... https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/transmorphicpainting/?hl=en . His latest pieces are are a short called “Factory 32”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50O4E9_6pvc&ab_channel=rlowden100, and another piece for The Getty Museum titled “ The Tale of Miniyamba”
Mr. Lowden resides in Southern California.
