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Markus Linnenbrink
WEREMEMBEREVERYONE
1 April - 8 May
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MARKUS LINNENBRINK
AHOLETOSWALLOWUS, 2020
Epoxy resin and pigments on wood
63 x 51 inches
160 x 129.5 cm
"Over the course of his thirty-year career, the German-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s paintings have taken form primarily via three distinct processes; Linnenbrink calls the resulting works "drips," "drills," and "reverses"... Reverses are the most recent of the three processes by which Linnenbrink’s paintings take form; the artist began utilizing this process in 2008 as a means of further pushing the physical depth of his paintings without turning to heavy machinery. As the process’s name suggests, Linnenbrink’s reverses take the drills’ use of excavation as a means of producing surprising revelations but instead invert it."
- Excerpt from “Trust Fall” by Cat Kron
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MARKUS LINNENBRINK
NOPRESENCENOHELLOIGOTAPLANNOWHERETOGO, 2020
Epoxy resin and pigments on wood, diptych
88 x 107 3/4 inches
223.5 x 273.7 cm
"All of Linnenbrink’s paintings are notable for their material economy, for the way in which nothing is wasted. NOPRESENCENOHELLOIGOTAPLANNOWHERETOGO (2020), as are all the works mentioned here, is a large-scale striated-wall drip piece with regularly spaced bands of paint. But snapshots from the artist’s studio reveal pools of clashing drippings coagulating chaotically in an oversized tray placed below the work. The artist rarely uses brushes, and the closest thing to a stylus in his studio is a round bit used to create his drills, the second process he’s known for."
- Excerpt from “Trust Fall” by Cat Kron
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MARKUS LINNENBRINK
IWOKEUPINAMERICA, 2021
Epoxy resin and pigments on wood
36 x 96 inches
91.4 x 243.8 cm
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MARKUS LINNENBRINK
WHATSITGONNABEBOY, 2021
Epoxy resin and pigments on wood
24 x 96 inches
61 x 243.8 cm
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View MoreMARKUS LINNENBRINK (b. in Dortmund, Germany in 1961) attended Gesamthochschule in Kassel and later the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.
Recent solo exhibitions include “WEREMEMBEREVERYONE,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “IWANNABEWHEREYOUARE,” Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; “SLEEPWALKPARADISE,” Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; “WHOLEWIDEWORLDWONDERFUL,” Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain; “LETMETELLYOUWHATTHERIVERSGONNADO,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “THEREAINTNOEASYWAYOUT,” Maurizio Caldirola, Monza, Italy; “HOWCANISLEEPWITHROCKSINMYBED,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY.Recent group exhibitions include “Farbanstöße. Farbe in der neueren Kunst,” Kunstsammlung der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Bochum, Germany; “Water Reverie,” Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; “The Responsive Eye Revisited: Then, Now, and In-Between,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Abstraction&Architecture,“(Days of Architecture), Strasbourg, France.
His work is included in the permanent collections of Ministry of Culture, The Hague, The Netherlands; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; and Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Markus Linnenbrink lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
