![]() ![]() The work still hinges on art history and maintains his characteristic surrealist-symbolist look, but now Brown’s marks are bigger and bolder and his colors more fantastical, making every rendering intensely graphic and charged with accelerated motion. ![]() ![]() After his last New York exhibition in 2014, Brown spent time concentrating exclusively on drawing, describing it as “the skeleton that holds the composition of any painting together.” In this exhibition, the technique becomes his starting point each painting is based on an appropriated drawing. ![]() The artist’s exacting mark making, which produces intricate loops and swirls of paint that appear to glide and float across the canvases’ surfaces, infuses these works with an ethereal vitality. Glenn Brown’s new paintings that are on view in his solo exhibition “We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent”, include double portraits, twisted figures, and a large-scale still life with ripened quinces. His grotesque yet fascinating figures appear to be painted with thick impasto, but are actually executed through the application of thin, swirling brushstrokes which create the illusion of almost photographically flat surfaces. Starting with reproductions from other artist’s works, Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its color, position and size. Glenn Brown is known for the use of art historical references in his paintings. ![]()
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