Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

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Glenn Brown’s (b. 1966) practice is one in which concerns of a technical, aesthetic and spiritual nature are explored through an eclectic mix of influences. Spanning painting, drawing and sculpture, the artist reflects upon the history of art without confining himself to a specific period. The sources for his works can be found in the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Adolph von Menzel, Surrealists – especially Salvador Dalí – or artists including Karel Appel, Frank Auerbach and Georg Baselitz, as well as sci-fi painters such as Chris Foss. Deliberately drawing from reproductions, Brown manipulates this imagery, often beyond recognition, before transposing them into works of an unparalleled uncanniness, where colours and forms undergo further re-assessment.

Brown could be perceived as the ultimate Mannerist painter, perplexing the viewer with distorted, exaggerated and sometimes grotesque forms. His technical virtuosity is captivating. Executed in the traditional medium of oil paint, his paintings act as trompe-l'oeil, showing swirls of colour which at first glance seem to form a thick impasto, until surfaces reveal themselves to be actually smooth. Both alluring and unsettling, ranging from monstrous to melancholic, Brown’s paintings – like his drawings and sculptures – broadcast a pronounced indifference to common distinctions between good and bad taste, or beauty and abjection.

‘Everything oozes majestically. The paintings and sculptures of Glenn Brown are deliquescent in the physical sense of the term, the property possessed by certain solid substances of slow liquefaction by gradual absorption of atmospheric humidity. Description of this now jubilant, now morbid magma gives rise to an unending, indeed unbearable succession of sugarcoated adjectives, adverbs and nouns. One can come at these paintings only tentatively, by narratives and descriptions, by impressions, by repetitions and sonorities and by the contradictions in which they are so rich. Any language that can encompass the work of Brown must necessarily be vague, full of double-talk and ambiguity, for this is the way in which the artist treats images.’

Jean-Marie Gallais, ‘Exquisite Deliquescence’ in Glenn Brown, exh. cat., Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2011

Image: N***** of the World, 2011, oil on panel, 172 x 138 cm

Artist Interview

Selected Works

A Sailor's Life, 2011

Dark Star, 2003

Little Deaths, 2000
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Solo Exhibitions

GLENN BROWN - Galerie Max Hetzler

And Thus We Existed

Bleibtreustraße 15/16, Berlin

31 October 2020 – 23 January 2021
GLENN BROWN - Galerie Max Hetzler

And Thus We Existed

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

31 October 2020 – 23 January 2021
GLENN BROWN - Galerie Max Hetzler

Dessins

57, rue du Temple, Paris

5 September – 10 October 2015
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

(catalogue)

Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin-Charlottenburg

8 April – 28 May 2011
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

(catalogue)

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

3 February – 11 March 2006
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

17 September – 26 October 2002
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Paintings and Sculptures

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

15 April – 3 June 2000

Group Exhibitions

INPUT / OUTPUT: PAINTING AFTER TECHNOLOGY - Galerie Max Hetzler

INPUT / OUTPUT: PAINTING AFTER TECHNOLOGY

Glenn Brown, Jeff Elrod, Julian Schnabel, Tursic & Mille, Michael Williams, Christopher Wool, and Toby Ziegler

41 Dover Street, London

16 April – 25 May 2019
MATIÈRE GRISE - Galerie Max Hetzler

MATIÈRE GRISE

Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Jeremy Demester, Günther Förg, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Charline von Heyl, Liz Larner, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Edmund de Waal

57, rue du Temple, Paris

10 June – 20 July 2017
REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
(catalogue)

Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin-Wedding

10 November – 21 December 2013

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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The Brown Collection, London

20 October – 23 December 2022
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Carte Blanche à Glenn Brown – FIAC Hors les Murs 2019

Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris

10 October – 9 December 2019
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TRANSMUTATIONS: Glenn Brown / What’s Old is New Again

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene

18 May – 19 August 2018
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Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

9 September 2016 – 15 January 2017
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Suffer Well

Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles

14 May – 11 September 2016
Glenn Brown and the Old Masters

Glenn Brown and the Old Masters

Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

1 November 2013 – 16 February 2014

Biography

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Show Selected Bibliography

Videos

Adam Pendleton

GLENN BROWN: The Pursuit of Love

Glenn Brown performing the cutting from the loom ceremony of his first, handwoven tapestry on Tuesday 27 September at the Manufacture de Ateliers Pinton.

27 September 2022
Adam Pendleton

Interview: Glenn Brown

on the occasion of his solo exhibition ‘And Thus We Existed’ at Galerie Max Hetzler

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

31 October 2020
Adam Pendleton

ARTIST TALK: GLENN BROWN

Glenn Brown in conversation with Jonas Storsve on the occasion of the exhibition "Carte Blanche à Glenn Brown – FIAC Hors les Murs 2019" at Musée Delacroix from 10 October – 9 December 2019

Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris

14 November 2019

Publications

Glenn Brown: And Thus We Existed - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown: And Thus We Existed

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications 2021
With a text by Dawn Ades and an interview with the artist

€ 50.00

Glenn Brown, And Thus We Existed - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown, And Thus We Existed

Exhibition Poster
Created by the artist
2020

Out of stock

Glenn Brown: Dessins - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown: Dessins

Glenn Brown

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2015
With a text by Andreas Schalhorn

€ 50.00

Leaf through book
REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais

€ 45.00

Leaf through book
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2011
With a text by Jean-Marie Gallais

€ 35.00

Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2006
With a text by Tom Morton

€ 35.00

Selected Press

Artnet News November 2022

Wall Street Journal October 2022

Master Drawings 2019

Master Drawing 2019

The Guardian 2018

Artlyst 2018

Frieze 2017

The Art Newspaper 2016

huffpost 2016

M le magazine du Monde 2016

randian 2015

artpress 2015

The Art Newspaper 2012

Frog 2011

Die Welt 2011

Neues Deutschland 2011

Art Monthly 2009

Frieze 2009

Financial Times 2009

Art in America 2009

Parkett 2005

The Guardian 2004

Frieze 1993

News

Glenn Brown

The Real Thing (solo show)
Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover
24 February – 18 June 2023

This landmark exhibition will combine old, modern and contemporary masters across two major institutions in Germany: the Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover. Glenn Brown will reimagine the permanent collections of both, generating a conversation around contemporary and historic art that is ...
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Les Choses (Things) (group show)
Louvre Museum, Paris
13 October 2022 – 23 January 2023

Glenn Brown's work, Burlesque, 2008 is part of the group show Les Choses (Things) at the Louvre. The exhibition revisits the still life genre from the perspective of the ongoing dialogue between past and present artists. It sheds new light on our attachment to material things, while covering the ...
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Glenn Brown opens museum dedicated to his works (solo show)
The Brown Collection, London
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

The Brown Collection is home to the art collection of the British artist Glenn Brown, CBE. With over three floors of exhibition space in a renovated warehouse in Marylebone, London, the building also houses the artist’s archives and administrative offices.

The inaugural exhibition shows the ...
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Glenn Brown et al.

BBC Proms: Glass Handel (performance)
Printworks, London
Saturday, 3 September 2022

Glenn Brown will be painting live during Glass Handel, an operatic spectacle featuring dance, art, film, and fashion, organised by the BBC Proms and the English National Opera. Taking place in the vast hall of Printworks, London on Saturday 3 September, the spectacle conceived by Anthony Roth ...
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A Brush With... Glenn Brown (podcast)
The Art Newspaper

For the 50th episode of the podcast series A brush with… by The Art Newspaper, artist Glenn Brown joins host Ben Luke to discuss his greatest influences – from the worlds of literature, music, and art – and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Brown discusses his early love ...
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Pursuit of Love (event)
Manufacture des Ateliers Pinton, Paris
Tuesday, 27 September 2022

Glenn Brown is going to perform the cutting from the loom ceremony of the tapestry Loves of Shepherds after an original drawning by the artist. The event, 'Tombée de Métier' will take place at 2:30pm at the Manufacture des Ateliers Pinton in Paris on Tuesday, 27 September 2022. 

RSVP for the ...
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on "Closed Eyes" (1890) by Odilon Redon for the Musée d’Orsay
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
18 February 2020

For the Musée d'Orsay's "Une oeuvre / Un regard", the British painter Glenn Brown chose "Closed Eyes" by Odilon Redon, a very enigmatic Work that "draws you in… to think about it, not just look at it".

Glenn Brown (British, 1966) is known for his use of art historical references in his ...
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