The Body Snatchers 1991

Glenn Brown made this painting called "The Body Snatchers" with thick, gloopy paint, kind of troweled onto the surface. I can just imagine him wrestling with that medium, pushing it around, maybe even regretting it as he went. The colors are churning – like a cosmic soup of dark blues, yellows, and whites. There’s this swirling energy, especially around what looks like these eye-like shapes, each framed with heavy marks. Those gestures, they’re so loaded! Like he’s digging into something, trying to unearth a feeling or maybe a memory. It reminds me of Auerbach's heavy impasto. I wonder if Glenn was thinking about what it means to see, or to be seen, when he made this? Like, what happens when you really look, you know? Painters are constantly riffing off each other, and I feel this dialogue happening across time here, this conversation about how we experience the world through paint. Ultimately, it's about embracing the messy, uncertain process of making, and seeing, art.