Glenn Brown

“Rembrandt is very important, fundamental, to my work”
—Glenn Brown

Behind this intricate mesh of bold marks are the outlines of Rembrandt’s series of male heads in exotic garb. Brown superimposes, manipulates, and deforms those images to create his own work, inviting associations with the layered quality of time and the distorting effects of memory.

The print’s ambiguous relation to history is embedded in its creation. Brown stacks digital images of Rembrandt’s heads, alters them with Photoshop, and draws on them using an iPad. The resulting digital file is then photomechanically transferred to a copper plate and printed like a traditional etching.