His spooky writhing surfaces and acidic color are unmistakable. Perhaps most importantly, he is instantly recognizable. Furthermore, Brown is a champion of painting, wanting his works to stand alongside great works from history. He is enormously ambitious, his paintings stretch across the traditional genres of still life portrait and landscape. He is seriously invested in the fertile relationship between painting and the reproduced image. The artist clearly loves the history of art, his own works reference any number of canonical or historical sources. Brown is a meticulous craftsman in a time when provisional or quick approaches to painting are popular. One can easily make a list of the virtues of Brown’s painting practice. This show represents Brown’s first US Museum survey. The exhibition is a generous survey of many paintings as well as as a handful of sculptures, drawings, and even a recent suite of etchings. Glenn Brown Is on view at the Contemporary Arts Center through January 15. In Britain, Brown is considered something of a unicorn, a conceptually motivated artist who is absolutely committed to the practice of painting. The artists’ paintings have changed minimally over time, Brown has found great success to the tune of auction prices into the millions of dollars. I have been aware of the work of artist Glenn Brown ever since he was first introduced in the 1990s as a loose member of the British YBA group.
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