Robert Stuart Lowden was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in North Buffalo.  He 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, and eventually became involved in the local punk and prog scenes, which led to a nascent interest in art culminating in a number of sculpture exhibitions at Buffalo's famed Hallwalls Gallery.

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Buffalo became deeply economically depressed in the late 1970's “Rust Belt“ period, and resulted in Lowden making a post-college move to Southern California. He moved in with family and was plunged into the low budget horror film world of the eighties.

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Lowden became interested in Photoshop 1, and produced some illustrations that he took to EZTV, where Michael J. Masucci curated them for several shows at their Cyberspace Gallery.  This led to a seven-year stint at Dreamworks Animation, where he worked as a background painter and effects animator.  However, Lowden became an oil painter and a sculptor as well, having studied with Raoul Delasota, Steve Houston, Olga Seem and Lee Whitten at Los Angeles City College.

 

For the last several years, he has exhibited at Ave 50 Gallery. After some years of experiencing the super fluidity of digital painting, his personal oil work and sculpture began to change into a morphic and fluid style that was a direct result of the digital experience. In addition, he expanded into satirical-themed work. Another discipline in his fine arts arsenal is photography. He's also a photojournalist, and since 2005 has shot for the Los Angeles Independent Media Center, where he specialized in covering protests, including the Women's Marches, George Floyd protests, and Occupy Wall Street, to name a few...

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Robert Stuart Lowden still resides in Los Angeles.