-- It brings the playground days right in my livingroom-- Jim Foster, The Globe--

If people just knew the tragedy of this artist's life, it would instill more hope than a Oral Roberts televised sermon. Lowrents was a pioneer in his infant days, just after birth his mother placed him into a plastic bag and tossed him in a river. Lowrents lived for six days on waterbugs until a wild dog drug his bloated body ashore. The dog raised him until the tender age of seven, until a hunting party confused his canine mother as attacking the youth and instantly shot her. The story baffled scientists and made local fame in a pulp magazine pictured to the right. Lowrents was put in a foster couple's care and then sent to a state learning facility. Teachers instantly picked up his crude talents of artistry while Lowrents smeared his feces on various walls. Shapes of mountains and trees which transferred our esteemed visionary into a mental hospital for observation. Being around people more down to his animalistic behaivor, Lowrent's discovered the fantastic world of fingerpainting and macaroni art. In mere days he was a cut above his cellmates, some of his early works inspired his fellow peers to riotious proportions getting several nurses and orderlies raped and killed. Rubber rooms, 3 a.m. beatings and straitjackets could not discourage or break the focus of what lied ahead for this great man. The courts released Lowrents at 18 to embark on his art career. His first gallery was displayed in a truckstop shitter on three stalls drawing rave reviews from passerbys and commode critics. One of those critics was a famous New York art dealer, who that day really had a bad case of the shits. He marveled in delight while flushing the stool, demanding that Lowrent's show off his talent in the Big Apple. The rest is history and a folly of artistic awards plus the Nobel. Now out from seclusion, we at the Institute present his wonderful gifts...

Following in the footsteps of Van Gogh, Tony Clifton and Mike Diana, this artist puts passion before fame.