The Shift in Perspective The 1980s mark a definitive pivot in the trajectory of Robert Lowe. Born in Bolton, United Kingdom, in 1955, the painter eventually moves across the Atlantic, settling in the United States. This relocation coincides with a profound transformation in his visual language. His early work leans toward the grounded weight of realism, but as he establishes himself in a new landscape, the figures in his paintings begin to drift. They move away from the literal and toward the surreal and the stylized, shedding the constraints of strict representation for something more enigm…