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Color and its myriad of combinations always amaze me. To paint the expression of a face and to change that expression, from happy to sad by one miniscule change in the shadow of an eye, makes one never want to do anything else.
—Glenn Brown
Gagosian is pleased to present Glenn Brown’s first solo exhibition in New York, featuring recent paintings and sculptures.
On view will be seven new paintings, in which the artist continues his practice of appropriating figures and subjects from art-historical precedents and transforming them into something new. This body of work merges painted copies of old master paintings with references to film, literature, and music. Brown collapses the barriers that distinguish “high” art from “low” culture and fuses together images from different historical eras and cultural practices, resulting in visual hybrids that confront the viewer with an imaginary world. Through the reinterpreted brushwork, manipulation of color, addition of detail, and use of titles, Brown provides commentary on the issue of the original “artwork” and the profusion of its reproductions within artistic practice and everyday life. Also on view are two new sculptures made of paint and plaster. These three-dimensional works function as extensions of the paintings, employing color, form, and movement in a painterly manner.
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Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2023
The Spring 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Roe Ethridge’s Two Kittens with Yarn Ball (2017–22) on its cover.
Glenn Brown: From the Inside Out
Novelist Andrew Winer reports on the formal, conceptual, historical, and philosophical perspectives embedded in Glenn Brown’s latest paintings and drawings. The two talked after the opening of the artist’s recent New York exhibition Glenn Brown: We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent.
Glenn Brown: We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent
In conjunction with his exhibition Glenn Brown: We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent at Gagosian in New York, the artist sits down to discuss his new paintings, sculptures, and drawings.
In Conversation
Glenn Brown and Jacky Klein
Glenn Brown speaks with art historian Jacky Klein about working between mediums, his first finished painting of 2021, and the evolution of his artistic voice.
Augurs of Spring
As spring approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, Sydney Stutterheim reflects on the iconography and symbolism of the season in art both past and present.
Visions of the Self: Jenny Saville on Rembrandt
Jenny Saville reveals the process behind her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles.
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Artist Spotlight
Glenn Brown
April 28–May 4, 2021
Mining art history and popular culture, Glenn Brown has created an artistic language that refuses categorization, combining a wide range of periods from art history through reference, appropriation, and precise attention to detail. His mannerist impulses stem from a desire to breathe new life into past images; they are treasuries of raw material, offering countless images, titles, and techniques to be combined and deconstructed, producing complex and sensuous works of art that are resolutely of our time.
Photo: Edgar Laguinia