Markus Linnenbrink
Hangloose, 2009
Epoxy resin and pigment on wood
17 × 13 inches
Courtesy of Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Retail value: $9,500

Existing somewhere between painting and sculpture, Markus Linnenbrinks’s artwork takes form in color and in the materials the artist employs. Hangloose, 2009, is part of a series of abstract works that Linnenbrink calls “drills,” aptly named for the method he uses to produce them. For Hangloose, he poured and layered brightly colored epoxy resin onto a wood panel. After layering the resin approximately half an inch thick, however, Linnenbrink randomly drills small circles into the surface with a router, exposing the vibrant color underneath in rings that resemble bullseyes. The overall optic effect is paramount in Hangloose. In it, Linnenbrink combines art-historical wit with originality and beautifully encapsulates the intentions and concerns that have made him a painter of international importance.  

Markus Linnenbrink was born in 1961 in Dortmund, Germany. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and subsequently moved to the United States, where he currently resides in Brooklyn. He has had solo exhibitions in major cities in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, South Korea, and the United States. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Ministry of Culture, Education, and Science, The Hague, the Netherlands; Harvard Business School, Boston; Harvard College, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Museum Neue Gallerie, Kassel, Germany; the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; the West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others. 

Linnenbrink’s NOBODYWINSWHOFIGHTSALONE, 2009, is currently on view at SJMA in the exhibition Local Color.

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