Glen Rubsamen (USA)
Introduction
“My pictorial investigations are characterized by a documentary interest in compiling, like collectibles, situations in nature of great dramatic intensity, such as sunrises and sunsets, exuberant vegetation or images of the apocalypse. Working primarily as a painter but also with drawing and printmaking. I am attempting to isolate the idea of a ‘post-nature’ defined as a place were space is shrinking, were objects in the landscape play no part in any synthesis; they have no memory, they simply bear witness during a journey. In my view of ‘post-nature’, beauty is not lost: it has just become ambivalent. These characteristics in my work, combined with the absence of human presence, the tendency towards monochrome and the lack of spatio-temporal references create an atmosphere charged with austere quietude and spirituality. I paint a nature where the organic appears in artificial images.” /Glen Rubsamen
My first glimpse came at one of these places, 2008
80X80cm, acrylic on canvas
The lurid gravity of major hallucination, 2007
110X110cm, acrylic on linen
A reassuring lie unfolds, 2007
video still, duration 12 minutes
Take all the time you need, 2007
180X110cm x 5, acrylic on linen
This artistic form was not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness... , 2007
140X60cm, ink on paper
An escape into truth II, 2007
60X113cm x 2, diptych, ink on paper
A little bioluminescence, 2007
110X140, fotogravyr, edition 10
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A whole field of my consciousness, 2007
110X140, fotogravyr, edition 10
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An atmosphere of congenial disorder, 2007
180X150cm, acrylic on linen
A reassuring lie unfolds, 2007
(installation view, Brändström & Stene, 2007)
A reassuring lie unfolds, 2007
(installation view, Brändström & Stene, 2007)
Some strange slip towards softness, 2006
40X40cm, oil and acrylic on wood
Self portrait with foliage, 2005
80X80cm, acrylic on linen
Go tell it to the trees, 2003
140X110cm, acrylic on canvas
Introduction
“My pictorial investigations are characterized by a documentary interest in compiling, like collectibles, situations in nature of great dramatic intensity, such as sunrises and sunsets, exuberant vegetation or images of the apocalypse. Working primarily as a painter but also with drawing and printmaking. I am attempting to isolate the idea of a ‘post-nature’ defined as a place were space is shrinking, were objects in the landscape play no part in any synthesis; they have no memory, they simply bear witness during a journey. In my view of ‘post-nature’, beauty is not lost: it has just become ambivalent. These characteristics in my work, combined with the absence of human presence, the tendency towards monochrome and the lack of spatio-temporal references create an atmosphere charged with austere quietude and spirituality. I paint a nature where the organic appears in artificial images.” /Glen Rubsamen
My first glimpse came at one of these places, 2008
80X80cm, acrylic on canvas
The lurid gravity of major hallucination, 2007
110X110cm, acrylic on linen
A reassuring lie unfolds, 2007
video still, duration 12 minutes
Take all the time you need, 2007
180X110cm x 5, acrylic on linen
This artistic form was not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness... , 2007
140X60cm, ink on paper
An escape into truth II, 2007
60X113cm x 2, diptych, ink on paper
A little bioluminescence, 2007
110X140, fotogravyr, edition 10
A whole field of my consciousness, 2007
110X140, fotogravyr, edition 10
An atmosphere of congenial disorder, 2007
180X150cm, acrylic on linen
A reassuring lie unfolds, 2007
(installation view, Brändström & Stene, 2007)
A reassuring lie unfolds, 2007
(installation view, Brändström & Stene, 2007)
Some strange slip towards softness, 2006
40X40cm, oil and acrylic on wood
Self portrait with foliage, 2005
80X80cm, acrylic on linen
Go tell it to the trees, 2003
140X110cm, acrylic on canvas