Glenn Brown | "Disorder", 2005 | (for Parkett 75)
Best known for borrowing images from the canons of art history, Brown overlays a photograph of a historical portrait with his signature brush strokes in this digital print on archival paper.
Read a Parkett Text on Glenn Brown
Parkett Vol. 75
Quote from Parkett
“A fresh and filthy flower, a flourish stilled; a streched torso, a face built from air. Details—a sickly eye, a boneless hand, a bloated toe—repel and attract with the confusion of a vicious joke turned tender. Every one of Brown’s elegant arrangements of paint is an idea leavened with humor; greatness is simultaneously punctured and paid homage to. Such a mix of hyper-reality (the kind of reality that can only exist on canvas) and illusion can be disorienting; it is difficult to grasp that such complication is simply pigment paintstakingly applied to a canvas with small brushes.”
Jennifer Higgie, Parkett No. 75, 2005
"Disorder", 2005 (for Parkett 75)
Digital print on archival paper,
surface mounted on Plexiglas,
paper size 32 5/8 x 25 1/2” (83 x 65 cm),
image 28 3/8 x 21 5/8” (72 x 55 cm),
Ed. 55/XXV, signed and numbered verso.
Limited availability
Best known for borrowing images from the canons of art history, Brown overlays a photograph of a historical portrait with his signature brush strokes in this digital print on archival paper.
Read a Parkett Text on Glenn Brown
Parkett Vol. 75
Quote from Parkett
“A fresh and filthy flower, a flourish stilled; a streched torso, a face built from air. Details—a sickly eye, a boneless hand, a bloated toe—repel and attract with the confusion of a vicious joke turned tender. Every one of Brown’s elegant arrangements of paint is an idea leavened with humor; greatness is simultaneously punctured and paid homage to. Such a mix of hyper-reality (the kind of reality that can only exist on canvas) and illusion can be disorienting; it is difficult to grasp that such complication is simply pigment paintstakingly applied to a canvas with small brushes.”
Jennifer Higgie, Parkett No. 75, 2005
"Disorder", 2005 (for Parkett 75)
Digital print on archival paper,
surface mounted on Plexiglas,
paper size 32 5/8 x 25 1/2” (83 x 65 cm),
image 28 3/8 x 21 5/8” (72 x 55 cm),
Ed. 55/XXV, signed and numbered verso.
Limited availability
Best known for borrowing images from the canons of art history, Brown overlays a photograph of a historical portrait with his signature brush strokes in this digital print on archival paper.
Read a Parkett Text on Glenn Brown
Parkett Vol. 75
Quote from Parkett
“A fresh and filthy flower, a flourish stilled; a streched torso, a face built from air. Details—a sickly eye, a boneless hand, a bloated toe—repel and attract with the confusion of a vicious joke turned tender. Every one of Brown’s elegant arrangements of paint is an idea leavened with humor; greatness is simultaneously punctured and paid homage to. Such a mix of hyper-reality (the kind of reality that can only exist on canvas) and illusion can be disorienting; it is difficult to grasp that such complication is simply pigment paintstakingly applied to a canvas with small brushes.”
Jennifer Higgie, Parkett No. 75, 2005
"Disorder", 2005 (for Parkett 75)
Digital print on archival paper,
surface mounted on Plexiglas,
paper size 32 5/8 x 25 1/2” (83 x 65 cm),
image 28 3/8 x 21 5/8” (72 x 55 cm),
Ed. 55/XXV, signed and numbered verso.
Limited availability
Artist Video
This short video excerpt discusses some aspects of Glenn Brown’s work.
Parkett Text
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Parkett Cover
Glenn Brown’s work on the cover of Parkett no. 75
